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...academic freedom issue, the row over down when Hiss spoke. They emigrated from the city in droves, corncring reluctant students to voice an opinion on a man convicted when they were thirteen or fourteen. Photographers were so rambunctious when University proctors spirited Hiss into Whig Hall that he arranged an escape through the rear exit, leaving the men of the press taking pictures of themselves at the front. Representatives from Reuters, the London News-Chronicle, and the New Republic, who were left on the door-step, didn't get much of a story on Hiss' actually anti-climactic speech...
...unusual as the circular office building, the first of its kind in the world, is its owner-Capitol Records. Fourteen years ago Capitol was a shellac-like gleam in the eyes of three founders (including Blues in the Night Composer Johnny Mercer), who put up a grand total of $10,000. Last year Britain's giant, conservative Electrical & Musical Industries liked the company so much that it paid $8,300,000 for 96.4% of Capitol's stock...
...squad, the City Council finally declared a state of emergency and seized the MTA. Thus Transit Authority equipment led the attack on Massachusetts Ave. and Arrow Street. Featured in the MTA fleet were three brand new Walter Snow-Fighters (Guaranteed 100% Traction) with an estimated 690 horsepower operating through fourteen gears forward and six back...
...freshmen and fourteen sophomores have unofficially transferred to the Army program. According to Col. Trevor N. Dupuy, professor of Military Science and Tactics, two from each class have already expressed a desire to return to the AFROTC unit if it is accepted by the Administration. Most of the other students are still undecided...
With eight games of its fourteen-game schedule left to play, Lowell House, with a 5-1 record, is in second place behind Eliot House follows in the third slot with four wins against two defeats, as Adams first division...