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Also included in the Council committee's report on libraries was a proposal to lengthen hours in Widener from 10 till 12 o'clock at night. Reactions to this proposal were generally unfavorable, however, Petri noted, because officials in Widener had stated that no extra people could be found to staff the library for the two extra hours...
Somewhat tense but never impatient, the crowd had waited at the gates since early morning, but it was not until the afternoon shadows had begun to lengthen that the superintendent of Buckingham Palace at last made his appearance. His face wore a broad grin, and his hand bore a simple two-sentence statement handwritten on pale grey stationery and signed by the Queen's four doctors. "Is it a boy?" shouted someone in the crowd as the superintendent hung the gilt-framed announcement upon the railings. "Yes, it is," he shouted back, and the crowd cheered...
...market appeared to be taking a new look at such key business developments as the tapering of steel production and the slow buildup in inventories. Investors were reassessing these developments for what they are: not signs of a recession but signs of a spreadout in industrial activity that should lengthen the overall uptrend of the economy. Most Wall Streeters now do not believe that there will be a recession in 1961. As for the market, it may well take a breather until first-quarter reports. They are expected to be good, give stocks a new upward push...
...corporation has become a political and social system as well as an economic one-a state within a state. "Imperial decisions are ratified in this regal atmosphere," says Earl Latham, professor of political science at Amherst College, "decisions to divide up the U.S., develop Venezuela, support an Arab oligarchy, lengthen cars so that they fit nobody's garage, approve treaties with other satrapies of economic power and influence...
...lengthen Sunday hours in Lamont from 10 p.m. to 12 midnight during reading and exam periods. The committee also urged continued contact between the Council and library officials...