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Harvard and Radcliffe students rose in protest last night against the Lampoon's attempt to take Threski, the Sacred Ibis, away from the Russian people and the University of Moscow...
...demanding "That the Ibis be left with the Russians, to whom it now belongs by right of courtesy." Similar petitions were being circulated in the Yard last night and will be available in the Houses at noon. The petitions will be presented to both the state department and the Lampoon some time tomorrow...
...spectacle of the Sacred Ibis any where except on the Lampoon tower is not a subject for humour," funnyman John H. Updike stated last night. "The CRIMSON pranksters seems to have forgotten the rights of property. It's deplorable that they've carried collage jokes into the arena of international relations," comic Updike added...
Many have remarked about the curious inability on the part of the Lampoon to picture the touching scene over Red Square. The Ibis, with the graceful arch of its beak thrust into the Moscow snow, would probably overlook the tomb of John Reed, a former Communist Lampoon editor and one of four men to be buried in the Kremlin...
...Lampoon was in no mood for either nostalgia or humor yesterday. A series of phone calls to Russian headquarters at 680 Park Ave. in New York City succeeded in completely confusing the hapless Russians. According to the Lampoon, however, arrangements have been almost completed for the return of its Ibis. A carload of editors is expected to drive to New York today to take...