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Considered singly, each story is like a peasant hut of "the old country," crammed with populous, colloquial Jewish life. Most of the characters are credible: they haggle over fish, are starved or stuffed, often pray, sometimes forsake their faith, sometimes commit suicide. But occasionally Aleichem takes off from reality, and then he is at his best. He tells of people with one eyebrow black and the other white, who cut up a sofa to make a fiddle, whose goats change sex, whose clocks strike 13, who drink so much they catch fire inside and burn to death...
Head Start. Born in Luzon in 1878 to a Tagalog father and a mestizo, (mixed Spanish-Tagalog) mother, he had something of a head start-both his parents were schoolteachers. Their salary was ample: $6 a month each. Their home was a typical thatched nipa hut on stilts, with chickens scratching and hogs grunting in the mud beneath the ladder leading up to the door. Manila in those days was a full week's journey away, over what are still wild, jungle-covered mountains...
Projected to increase Stillman's present 65-bed capacity by at least 50 beds, plans for a Quonset hut installation connecting with the main building were still in the hands of Provost Buck yesterday but should be carried out by September, according to Dr. Bock...
...much as I can gather about them in the papers and your magazine, seems to more interested in finding a central recreation spot than in mending the world's problems. . . . Why not set up a Quonset hut for them with hard chairs and with windows overlooking one of the cemeteries of Iwo Jima? Maybe they'd forget their country clubs and get down to business...
...quartered 1,866 veterans in a powder plant 35 miles from the campus, 1,660 more at an Army airfield. Columbia established a "trailer campus," charging veterans for parking space but not for rent. At Rhode Island State, 28 Quonsets on Vet Row were jammed, eleven students to a hut. The president of Ohio's Marietta College took in boarders. Some hardy students at U.C.L.A. slept in all-night movies and parked cars...