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Alcoholism has not reached Harvard. In the summer, each week, the students gather in the Yard--a word which be special privilege replace the "campus" of other colleges--to drink fruit punch and listen to the symphonies of Tchaikovsky of Brahms...
...time the paper ran through a trust fund left by its slain publisher, circulation had dived from 55,000 to fewer than 20,000, and wealthy Moroccans would lend no money. Last week Maroc-Presse tasted the bitter fruit of its victory: the paper that bombs could not intimidate folded under the crush of its deficit...
...price for German unity, he growled: "After the results of the London negotiations there can no longer be any man in Germany who thinks the time has come to begin something with the Russians." Though many delegates felt that the old man's foreign policy had not borne fruit, only one dared openly to question its inflexibility. When Berlin Deputy Ferdinand Friedensburg suggested in an almost painfully respectful little speech that perhaps Germany should have alternative policies on reunification, the Chancellor leaped to the rostrum with the agility of a man of 50. He shook a stubby finger...
...Carload on Wednesday. Even worse, says Illinois Bell, are the companies that use the no-toll long distance call to transact business. Some produce firms, collection agencies and manufacturers are among the offenders, costing the telephone company untold revenue every year. A fruit company in California may call its distributor in Chicago, and ask for "Mr. Brown." Translated, the words mean that it has a carload of seedless grapefruit at $2 a case. The answer, "Sorry, Mr. Brown is in Portland," means, "Fine, send a car load for Wednesday delivery...
Barnes wants United Fruit to consent to nothing less than "extensive divestiture of United's lands now actually used for the production of bananas in the tropics." Breaking up the company at the growing end would presumably give jobbers competitive sources of supply. But the trustbuster added that despite 16 extensions of time to answer the complaint. "United has made no satisfactory offer to settle. The Department of Justice," he concluded, "is now actively preparing this case for trial." But Stanley Barnes will not be trying it. Last month he was appointed to new responsibilities as a judge...