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...Radcliffe dormitory presidents intend "to reinform Cliffies of their liability concerning Harvard parietal rules," Gall Thain '64, president of the Board of Hall, said yesterday...
Wilkins stands in direct contrast to such demagogic types. The 14-hour days he normally puts in at his job are severely straining his strength. He survived surgery for stomach cancer in 1946, but he has a serious gall-bladder ailment that keeps him off the cigars and social drinking he used to enjoy. It does not, however, keep him out of his ivory Triumph sports car, which he loves to drive along parkways near the apartment he shares with his St. Louis-born wife Minnie in an integrated neighborhood in Queens...
...runs eternally from an economy that is always catching up with him toward a security that never quite arrives. Unlike a mechanical rabbit, he is terrified. Yet in his terror he finds the nobility to hope. In his terror, as a matter of fact, he finds the unmitigated gall to hope against hope that the people who see him running around in circles will think he is a wheel...
...charge that the Negro is too militant in his fight for social and political justice, I would say that after 400 years of cruel, barbaric and unjust treatment, the American Negro is fed up with the unmitigated gall and hypocrisy, as well as the moral cowardliness, of the white...
...dogs. Other surgeons have long since demonstrated how many more supposedly vital parts the body can do without. Thanks largely to medicinal hormones that replace its own supply, the body can function adequately without: the master pituitary gland in the brain, both adrenals, the thyroid, the thymus, spleen, pancreas, gall bladder, one hemisphere of the brain, the gullet, much of the stomach, anywhere from a few inches to several feet of small bowel, the colon, rectum, one lung, one kidney, one testicle, one ovary, one breast, the prostate gland...