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...Overlapping Life. Their new life has not been easy. "We can't overindulge in alcohol, for obvious reasons; we can't haunt night clubs that feature sensational dance lines and limited apparel (usually stimulating to a man, they would be even more so to a man living as a 'brother'). We try to limit and strongly curtail our association with the 'sophisticated' set who enjoy the more worldly plays and movies and delight in passing on a somewhat spicy story . . . You can't maintain a close relationship with a quantity of cocktails behind...
...reason remains for saving the Howard. Rumor has it that Father Miller's ghost, which comes back every April 25 to haunt the Athenaeum and to repeat its favorite little couplet, may take its prophesying elsewhere if the building is demolished--perhaps even to the offices of the City Planning Board...
...there is no western nation so anxious as Germany about the shape of things to come under Kennedy; Berlin and, to a lesser extent, re-unification haunt the Germans, who feel that any change in the perpetual Berlin crisis is automatically a catastrophe and want new reassurance from the U.S. Bonn's recent offer to ease America's balance of payments dilemma and the forthcoming visit of Foreign Minister von Brentano on the sixteenth testify to this anxiety...
...found himself coping with many a problem he had not learned about in his Jesuit schooling-the extra clerical work, for example, caused by the Eskimos' practice of changing their names whenever a member of the family dies, so that the returning spirit would not know whom to haunt. He soon laid aside his clericals (though he uses vestments at Mass). "I don't need identifying clothes," he explains. "They know me if they hear me sneeze in the dark...
...talent hunt's loudest cheerleaders, Harvard's Dean Monro calls the progress "extraordinary." But he is deeply concerned that colleges are not doing their part. He wants them to "stop making scholarship awards, for embellishment purposes, to well-off students." He also thinks that professors should haunt "submerged" schools with the same tenacity as football coaches. "Why should 300 college representatives visit New Trier High School each year and hardly any, except coaches, visit the big downtown Chicago high school, only 20 miles away...