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Rarely taller or more distinctive than the factories, mah-jongg parlors, bookshops and tile-roofed rooming houses that hem them in, Tokyo's overcrowded university buildings line traffic-trampled streets rather than wooded malls. While top-prestige Tokyo University (15,879 students) has a wall to set it off from the city's bustle, even it has no greenery that could properly be called a campus. At many of these schools it is even rarer for a student to talk to a professor than it is at a U.S. multiversity. Nihon has 75,500 students, second only...
...explained as little as hers. After the death, in childbirth, of the girl who had been his mistress, Stamp leaves Miss Christie and presumably drowns himself. He comes back, however, in a carnival Miss Christie attends and manages through elaborate efforts to keep her from recognizing hem. Why, then, does he return to her home to claim her in the next next scene? The fault is not Stamp's. He plays his part well, with touches of malice and touches of humanity, but with the script...
...perhaps 200 people in California and Washington knew of the wedding, the essential details were not known until hours before the wedding. One of the few hitches occurred just before Rusk was to enter the church from a dimly lighted side room. Maid of Honor Anne Kogler's hem came unstitched, and as Chaplain Napier's wife groped to thread a needle, Rusk obligingly lit paper matches and-not for the first time-risked having his fingers burned...
...visit to the fashion-design department at Salford Technical College, Lancashire, the duke's eye fastened disapprovingly upon a miniskirt worn by 18-year-old Lorraine Hillier. "You are not being generous enough," he chided. "Compared with others, you are not showing enough leg." Since her hem was already three inches above the knee, Lorraine could but blush and tee-hee, but later she went solemnly to the heart of the matter: "My boy friend would like them shorter too. He's like the duke. All men are the same...
...face, cast thrice weekly by Manhattan's Tower Suite restaurant; 4) a collage made out of old cigarette butts; 5) sketches and models for "proposed colossal monuments," including a 75-ft.-high wing nut for engineering-happy Stockholm, and a brobdingnagian girl's thigh for hem-hoisting London...