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...organization of most of the clubs depends upon the executive boards, the real focal point of all activity. They are the groups which determine the success or failure of a club. "Every organization is run by a small group of students who are willing to work." Frank concedes...
Weepings and wailings and gnashings of teeth recently rent the air as coaches and other athletic officals lamented this country's poor performance in the Winter Olympics. The consensus around the stadia and other such national focal points seems to be that a mediocre bobsled team indicates a mediocre country. Thus, by failing to turn out as large a number of winners as the Russians, the United States automatically lost its position as a world leader...
...tenth anniversary with a bulky 180-page issue crammed with $186,-ooo worth of ads and an estimated circu lation of 506,000 (including readers in 15 foreign countries). This week the success of Ebony, which "emphasizes the positive and minimizes the negative" of race relations, will be the focal point of a Voice of America report on the U.S. Negro's progress...
...Focal point of the overnight parking problem is the city ordinance banning cars on the streets all night. Ready, Curry and Lynch favor standing pat on the law which they say was the result of public pressure. Curry claims that there is sufficient parking space for all student cars on University property (there isn't) while he's not going to worry about illegally parked cars till he sees all the city's parking lots, garages and driveways bulging with autos every night. Ready, who really isn't too worried either, feels that parked cars are a fire hazard...
...large in Rome, Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper characteristically wasted no time in getting to the heart of the matter in her interview with Gina Lollobrigida: "I've heard many arguments as to whether or not your focal point above the waist is larger and more shapely than Sophia Loren's." Gina replied promptly and "without batting an eyelash," Hedda reported: "I can assure you hers is larger." Concluded Hedda vaguely: "Loren's followers think Gina is too cold. Gina's fans say Loren puts too much stress on sex. It's pretty much the same...