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...neurotic episodes would be uninspired and without interest. But maladjusted Radcliffe girls and frustrated Harvards become extremely graphic as you follow them on their sexual excursions down the aisles of Widener ("Christ, Mark thought, doesn't anyone ever study around here?") and into their Eliot House beds between Gordon Linen sheets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe's New Catalogue | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

Died. Sir Frederick Handley Page. 76, pioneer builder of bombers, founder and chairman of Britain's first-and its last un-nationalized-aircraft corporation, Handley Page Ltd.. who designed multiengined R.A.F. warplanes from World War I's wood-and-linen type 0/400 to today's 600-m.p.h. Victor jet bomber, in peacetime invented the slotted wing, which blunderproofs planes against low-speed stalls; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 27, 1962 | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...laundry depot system for freshman dormitories will be discontinued next year, while depots will still be used for linen distribution, Arthur D. Trottenberg, Assistant Dean of the Faculty for business affairs, confirmed last night...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: Depot System for Yard Laundry to End in Fall | 4/26/1962 | See Source »

This decision was agreed upon earlier this week by Dean von Stade, Dustin M. Burke '52, and representatives of the Freshman Council, after a two-week study revealed that students were much more dissatisfied with the laundry system than with the linen system...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: Depot System for Yard Laundry to End in Fall | 4/26/1962 | See Source »

...linen distribution procedure, however, student reaction was surprisingly mild. Ninety percent of the 600 students filling out the questionnaire did subscribe to the linen service. Of these only 180, or one-third, called it "poor" or "unacceptable." Another third described it as "fair," just under a third dubbed it "good" or even "excellent," and a nonconformist ten "couldn't care less." When asked to suggest improvements, they responded with widely varying ideas. But they gave little support for a door-to-door linen distribution. The great amount of linen stealing, which allegedly prompted the setting up of depots this year...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: Depot System for Yard Laundry to End in Fall | 4/26/1962 | See Source »

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