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...EDWARD H. CALLAHAN Olean...
Both the Defense Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development are planning to let substantial contracts to test new technology that may cut building costs by as much as 15%. In Detroit, Contractor H. Fred Campbell persuaded both building inspectors and labor unions to ease some of their rules to help him start a $400,000 project in the largely Negro inner city. Partly by using new techniques, Campbell expects to offer a one-bedroom apartment for $80-a-month rent, well below that of competitive units. In South Bend, Ind., Home Builder Andrew Place has just sold...
...informed by anonymous phone call that they would not be returned until the lbis flew back to Freedom Square. A full board of the Crimson editors convened that evening and unanimously elected the lbis as president of the newspaper in the absence of the not notably popular Maccoby. John H. Updike '54, president of the Lampoon, set Cambridge on its ear by announcing shortly there after that 'No Crimson editor can rest safe in his bed. We promise in a week to depopulate Cambridge totally of this unfortunate element...
...pollsters rose to fame and influence on the basis of two celebrated debacles. During the 1936 presidential campaign, the old Literary Digest ran a mail poll and was wrong, while three more scientific pollsters were right. Those three-George H. Gallup, Elmo Roper and Archibald Crossley-conducted interviews among a predetermined mix of ethnic, income and age groups that seemed representative of the U.S. population. The other turning point was in 1948, when the pollsters again used this "quota system" of sampling-but were wrong. The U.S. had become so complex that picking just the right population...
Somehow, reading the works in their original setting recaptures some of the shock and excitement they must have given their first readers. Despite all the plays and movies derived from D. H. Lawrence and the countless exegeses, an early short story, The Woman Who Rode Away, emerges fresh and startling in a 1925 issue of the Dial. The proper American woman living in Mexico with a dreary husband goes off to the hills in search of fulfillment. Instead, she is imprisoned by Indians of such "terrible, glittering purity" that they ignore her womanhood and sacrifice her to their gods...