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...opening of a new $1,500,000 University Center this fall as part of the anniversary procedings may help undergraduate social life. A large ominous Georgian structure, it will house among other things, a dance hall, a cafeteria, a dining hall, bowling alleys, a snack bar, twin lounges for reading and watching television, offices for undergraduate activities, and 55 senior girls. Although opened last month, the building will be dedicated on Founder's Day. Students feel that it may be a big aid in strengthening non-fraternity extra-curricular and social life. for those who don't belong to fraternities...
...shrinking or growing according to the tides of population, and it must be made for use at all hours of the day. To please the taxpayer, the architect must also pay attention to cost-rby cutting down on stairways, waste space, and such traditional gimcracks as Greek columns, Georgian domes and Gothic towers. But most of all, the new school must eliminate restrictions on the pupil. Says Architect Ralph Burkhard, who remembers his own days in Manhattan's prisonlike P.S. 6: "When I design a school, all I think of is making it as different from those jails...
...wheezy engine" have now been superseded by a large and growing fleet of "radio cabs," conforming ... to a design intended to make turning and parking easy in narrow streets, yet clean, up-to-date and as comfortable as most cabs in most cities. We still have a few Georgian relics . . . but they are vanishing fast. Some, no doubt, have gone to California where, for the next few years, they may serve to perpetuate a legend (fog, a barrel-organ and a 1921 Unic taxi honking its way through the murk). The remainder are finding their way, rather quickly...
...faults and her talents better than father Culp did. She ironed out her central-Texas drawl with elocution lessons, cultivated a taste for Modigliani, Bartok and yellow roses-as well as gowns by Valentina and Bergdorf Goodman hats.* She learned how to manage a vast (27-room), vaguely Georgian mansion. She learned about arcchitecture and decoration, collected antique silver. She acted in amateur theatricals, became a leader in social work, a Junior Leaguer, a patroness of the symphony...
...meeting of the Supreme Soviet of Georgia, Bakradze acclaimed Beria as "the best son of Georgia . . . the outstanding leader of the Communist Party and great Soviet State." Conspicuously unmentioned was Beria's nominal boss, Premier Georgy Malenkov. Was this simply Georgian chauvinism or more evidence of Beria's dominance? Both men could hardly be "the outstanding leader...