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...Books: "Irving Sidney's" First Lady of the Evening, in which the President marries a hooker. TV: commercials for a synthetic hors d'oeuvre called Silly Pate and for the laundered lilt of Black Singer Don ("No Soul") Simmons. The whole thing has the offhand lunacy of Phi Beta frat boys on spring break. Don't miss...
...unusually low number of MIT freshmen pledging fraternities this year may cause some of the school's 33 frat houses severe financial difficulties, the chairman of the fraternity governing board said last week...
Parfomak said that while most of the larger frat houses could afford some vacancies, the smaller houses are much more vulnerable. Vacancies would force a per-person increase in house bills, which could make living in the fraternities much more expensive than living in MIT dormitories, he said...
...straight line? After all, as one of the oldest of all Wall Street cliches puts it, "Trees don't grow to the sky." Peter Furniss, a managing director at the brokerage firm of Smith Barney, Harris Upham, chooses a different metaphor. Says he: "It's like a college frat party. The music is loud, and everybody is having a wild time. But sooner or later, the cops are coming to bust up the party...
Lane said a similar incident occurred at Penn two years ago. A package of cocaine addressed to a different fraternity actually made it to the frat house. After discovering the drugs, the fraternity members called the police. The cocaine disappeared and has never been accounted for, Lane said...