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Housing in the dormitories varies widely from dormitory to dormitory. Some buildings, like Yard dorms, offer only communal bathrooms; others have private baths, Generally, they are functional Georgian buildings, without dining or library facilities...
...drastic as any change in its whole history. In the face of domestic turmoil the new leaders of Russia have abandoned "Stalin's bludgeon for more graceful tactics." Russia is now ruled not by a single dictator but by a group or junta. In comparison to Stalin ("Georgian suspicions, a mountaineer's narrow hatreds . . . the midnight habits of a proscribed revolutionary, the wolflike morals of a hunted bank robber") Salisbury found the junta composed of an outwardly pleasant bunch of men who thus, as a Western diplomat said, "are more dangerous than Stalin...
...casual passerby, everything looked normal around the University of Maryland's treeless new Georgian campus at College Park last week. Fall classes had yet to begin, but in Byrd Stadium, Football Coach Jim Tatum ran his 54-man squad (Pennsylvania mining and mill-town boys outnumber the 19 home-state boys) through first practice with high hopes of repeating his undefeated 1953 season. But across campus, in an ornate, walnut-paneled office, the U. of M.'s new president, Wilson Homer Elkins, 46, held his first press conference. Said he casually: "I don't think that...
Cheltenham, a cream-colored Georgian town at the foot of England's Cotswolds Hills, used to attract people mainly for its mineral waters and its fine public schools. But the war brought aircraft accessory industries to the town, and with the population change, town councilors began to look around for a new attraction. The idea of a music festival came up, and almost before anyone could sound a dissonant note, the deal was on. In 1945 the first ten-day festival was launched. Two years later Conductor Sir John Barbirolli adopted the event...
Housed in an 1801 Georgian mansion and surrounded by beautiful gardens, a handful of resident and visiting scholars and a select group of fellows carry on studies in almost every aspect of the culture of the Byzantine empire...