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Ambitious builders did not even wait for obsolescence. A fortnight ago, a firm took over the fashionable Ritz Carlton Hotel, announced that they would demolish it and build a more profitable 25-story office building on the site...
...Charlie Rebernigg Circus on the square behind Vienna's baroque Ehrlskirche had been a tough, smart, amiable elephant named Bubi. His broad, hospitable back was a favorite riding place for scores of Viennese tots. His sauntering shuffle was a familiar sight on the city's streets. Last fortnight, Bubi became suddenly irritable and turned on his trainer. All Vienna said that that was what came of keeping a male elephant virginal for 28 years. When Bubi was shot by order of Circus Owner Rebernigg, all Vienna mourned...
...them, Sir William Haley, director general of BBC, began plans last fall for a series of talks by qualified intellectuals on the impact of America on European culture. BBC's five lecturers-three Englishmen and an Irishman, with Harvard Professor Perry Miller concluding in rebuttal a fortnight ago-seemed to pull up two stakes for every one they drove, but succeeded here & there in tethering a groping Gullivernian arm or a flailing...
...Fortnight ago, when the NLRB ruled on the charges against Meier & Frank, both the Oregonian and the Journal printed the news. The Oregonian gave an eminently fair report of the issues and rulings in the case, covering both the charges of which M & F was found innocent and those on which it was found guilty. The Journal also touched all the bases, but its report was briefer, less prominently displayed, and kinder to the store...
President Hutchison did not like the stipulation, but a fortnight ago he decided to accept the money anyhow and add it to Lafayette's general endowment fund. "The college," he said, "is not in any condition where we can laugh off $140,000." But the decision brought instantaneous rumblings. Alumni phoned in protest. Sniffed the New York Times: "LAFAYETTE ACCEPTS FUND ON BIAS TERMS...