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Firth also stated that next year the department may drop Phil 1, which until this Fall has been offered without interruption for 75 years. The course reading overlaps by at least 60 per cent that in Hum 5, one of the largest courses in the University and one which the department must also staff. Firth pointed out that the eight-man philosophy department is the smallest of its kind in any major U.S. college...
Seldom has Hong Kong's business been better. Big hotels such as the fustily genteel Peninsula and Repulse Bay are packed with tourists. The repair yards of the Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co. hum with ships coming and going. Passengers crowd the Star Ferry Co. boats and the Peak Tramways' cable cars, which provide the most spectacular 10? rides in the world. China Light & Power Co. is adding four 60-megawatt turbines at a total cost of $34 million...
Humanities 2, Epic and Drama, moved into second place this fall with an enrollment of 695. The course replaces Humanities 5--which this year dropped to fifth--as the most popular Hum course...
Math 1a with 468 enrolled continues high on the list in fourth position. It is followed by Hum 5 and Soc Sci 1, which regained its status as the most crowded lower level Soc Sci. Both courses enrolled 382 students...
Haunted Tanks. His reputation as an actor grew almost as fast as his reputation as a loudmouthed roisterer. He drank hard. "I like to make things hum," he says. "I like to shout at the sun and spit at the moon." He had his nose sharpened by a plastic surgeon. His opinions did not need sharpening. He has often refused TV work, not wanting to swim in "the haunted fish tanks." He describes theater folk as "messy, sloppy, opinionated people, and if you can't stand them, you should go off and write slim volumes of poetry...