Word: halloween
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commissioner of Education Earl J. McGrath sighted "a specter in academic halls" that had nothing to do with Halloween. It was the specter "of another entire student body for every college and university." According to McGrath's figures, about 78% of the nation's fifth-grade students who are mentally qualified for college never get there. The result is that millions of U.S. citizens "go through life functioning below the level of their potential." His proposal: an annual $300 million federal aid program for college scholarships...
...extra hour of imbibition which greeted customers of local bars Halloween night probably won't be allowed again until New Years Eve. The Liquor Commission extended the midnight deadline to 10 a.m. to give Halloween celebrators a little longer for merrymaking, but it isn't likely that similar changes will be made for the Princeton weekend...
...Halloween-masked men forced their way into the Glass Hall Studies of WHBS, the Business School radio station, at 9 p.m. last night and held an announcer and technician powerless to stop them as they broadcast ad lib for five minutes-but over a dead mike...
Armed with water pistols and wearing Halloween disguise, the intruders left without harming either the students or the station's equipment...
...Today is Halloween. In contrast to last year, no special celebrations have been planned--or at least announced...