Word: kept
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...very healthy year, Houses were not as oversubscribed or underscribed as in the past, Watson said. He added that statistics on the relative popularity of Houses are kept confidential. "I think freshman are making their choices more intelligently than they have before," he said. "We are also lucky that many freshman applied in groups of eight or nine and said, 'Put us anywhere you like. We just want to be together.' That made the assignments much easier...
...Hurry. The U.S. has kept meticulously silent over events in Czechoslovakia for fear of further embarrassing Dubček before his Communist neighbors. Last week, though, the State Department said that it was watching the liberalization with "interest and sympathy," even expressed willingness to reopen talks about $20 million worth of Czechoslovak gold confiscated from the Nazis toward the end of World War II. The U.S. has refused to return the bullion without some compensation for $72 million in American properties that the Communists nationalized in 1948. At week's end, the Dubček regime rebuffed the offer...
Inside Hamilton Hall, 85 Negro students, who had been advised by such cool heads as Negro Psychologist Kenneth Clark, decided that their most effective tactic would be to file quietly into the vans (unlike white demonstrators in other buildings, they had kept their occupied quarters immaculate). With the two highest Negro officers in the New York police force observing, it was a model arrest operation-except that no one had brought a key for the main door and it had to be forced open...
...started rolling when a strapping 34-year-old Dane named Arne Bybjerg Pedersen answered a newspaper ad in 1962: a hairdresser was looking for a partner to help develop a new-style curler. Bybjerg, a former plantation manager in Malaysia, invested $5,500 and lost it all. But he kept his faith and teamed up with a Copenhagen engineer who offered his know-how and a basement workshop for experiments. The pair ran up $200,000 in debts before the Carmen Curler was perfected. A first order from Britain for 500 sets in 1964 put them in business...
...Houghton PTA, which has been pushing for construction of the classrooms, said yesterday that a "sampling" of PTA opinion made her think that "either site would be gratefully accepted" by the parents. "We have a very deep desire to keep the children in the neighborhood and have the school kept as an entity," she said. "Both sites would appear to do this...