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...House secretary. From her he discovered he had a friend living in a double the House wanted to make into a triple. He begged on his knees for the friend and his roommate to take him in. In reply, they began taking off their clothes, throwing rotten fruit, and chanting in unison that if the House tried to give them a floater they'd drive him to University Health services within 48 hours...
Other unions have threatened to tie up the whole economy. Yet nowhere has the brass been more badly tarnished than in Cipolletti, a fruit-packing town of 32,000, deep in the interior. There, the aroused residents used hoes, sticks and a sackful of cats to foil a long bureaucratic siege, a provincial governor and three puppet "mayors...
Since April, most reform efforts have focused on restructuring the University. These efforts will probably not bear fruit for some time to come. Yet in the meantime, issue of both political and educational nature remain of concern to at least a sizable portion of the student body. The danger of concentrating exclusively on restructuring is that it can allow such substantive questions as the propriety of certain types of research and the correctness of current admissions policies at Harvard to go unconsidered for an indefinite period by many students and Faculty...
Scurvy may once have been the curse of the Arctic mariner; on the Manhattan, where three meals and fresh fruit are served daily, the only threat was to the waistline. In 1819, the ice-trapped crew of the Hecla passed the Arctic nights by performing Garrick's Mm in Her Teens; on the Manhattan, the glacial boredom was punctuated by a movie every other...
...other to shoo the squirrels away from the seeds he puts out for the birds." The Dirksens resist dinner invitations, and keep their own entertaining informal. One fellow Senator had to cook his own chicken at a Dirksen party, and guests on another occasion picked the fruit to be served at their meal. "This is the cheapest way to get the picking done," explained Mrs. Dirksen...