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...weather was unseasonably warm that night; it would get colder later. More than 11,000 people attended the concert, four-fifth's of whom listened to the music through loudspeakers outside of the Cathedral. The concert was scheduled for 9:00 p.m. At three o'clock that day, the first arrival began his afternoon vigil. Four and one-half hours, eleven postcards and a finished journal later, he moved into the Cathedral, along with three thousand others...
Unable to substantially check university growth. Cambridge's answer to their housing crisis is rent control. The city first instituted a rent control program in 1970, after a decade of spiraling rents. Four-fifth of Cambridge's residents pay rent to absentee landlords...
Despite President Conant's policy to stimulate nation-wide geographic distribution in University enrollment, the East, a section including all states east of the Alleghenies and north of Washington D.C., produced almost four-fifth of the Class of '61, according to a recent survey...
Comforting thought for Americans: U.S. money (frozen in France) was largely responsible for the French prizewinners. RKO put up half the money for the 100 million franc ($840,000) Silence; Universal, four-fifth's of Diable's 52 million...
Three records were broken in the class A fighting. Walsh of Brockton ran the 220 in 23 seconds, Sundstrom of Brockton ran the 120 yard low hurdles in 14 and four-fifth seconds, and Vinal of Lowell put the shot 43 feet...