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...jam-packed, smoke-filled room, the Cambridge City Council met last night hear arguments for and against a proposed city-wide re-zoning that has been in works for several years and that could affect the University in three areas...
Well before the inaugural overture, the U.S. Congress (which convenes 17 days before inauguration) might well be tootling along in its own jam session, reworking that ancient cowboy tune. Don't Fence...
...attract students from a wider geographic area, notably from the big Eastern cities and suburbs. Says Kalamazoo's Princeton-educated President Weimer K. Hicks: "The sooner people in the East lose their provincial outlook on college education, the sooner we can ease up the so-called admissions jam." Pittsburgh's Chatham College prides itself on nurturing diversity and "intelligent nonconformity" among students; President Edward D. Eddy Jr. suggests that a student candidate's having backed some "unpopular but worthwhile cause" is a good qualification for admission...
...doctor may also get into a jam for administering antibiotics to allergic patients, or for invasion of privacy-like a Michigan physician who invited a friend to watch a delivery. He may even be accused of contributing to his patients' neuroses. A classic case: a New York woman, suffering from bursitis in her shoulder, received a radiation burn from excessive X-ray treatment, was later warned by a skin specialist that cancer might develop. She sued, and an appeals court in 1958 awarded her $15,000 for "cancerophobia" induced by the dermatologist's warning...
...half an hour the five Communist seamen soaked up the intriguing sights at Klein's, a big, crowded low-price store on Manhattan's Union Square. Reluctantly, they edged toward the door through the noontime jam. Just before they got outside, one of the sightseers asked his buddies to wait a moment; he wanted to buy some hair tonic. He elbowed back through the crush-and set his course for another exit. Once in the street, he started running. He had no destination, only a direction: west. Victor Jaanimets, 29, Soviet seaman from Estonia, wanted...