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...eight fraternities, encompassing about 520 boys, are forbidden to hold any parties on or off campus, or to have women or liquor in the houses. These penalties, the harshest in the last four years, were announced in a special decision by the faculty committee...
Characteristic Candor. Early this year, unable to shake off the aftereffects of a bout with flu, Evarts Graham went for a checkup to Washington University's Barnes Hospital, where he had so long wielded the scalpel. X rays showed lung cancer, and by the harshest of ironies it was in both lungs, so that his own brilliant operation, now standard in better hospitals around the world, could not save him. Nitrogen mustard, which sometimes serves as a life-prolonging palliative in such cases, proved to be of little help; the cancer had already spread too far. Last week, just...
...resolution, sponsored by the U.S. and 19 other powers, contained the harshest language the U.N. had ever used toward one of its members. Yet, when the roll was called, not a single nation outside the Iron Curtain joined Russia in opposing...
...expansion. Funston warned that the man who should supply $30 billion of this amount-the private investor-is hindered by prohibitive taxes that have "locked in" $200 billion in unrealized capital gains that could be used for new investments. Funston called the capital gains tax "one of the harshest penalties on success this country has ever devised," suggested tax liberalization to attract more funds for investment in the nation's business future...
...often rowdy business "Mr. Mack," as his players called him, remained a gentleman. Rumor had it that his harshest expletive was a mild "Goodness gracious!" In fact, he could spit out an angry "Damn!" when occasion demanded, and he could stand up verbally to the toughest man on his team. Somehow, his excited love for baseball never suffocated under the tall, stiff collars he wore long after they went out of style...