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Jackie Kennedy refuses to be falsely humble. She wore her apricot dress and coat of silk and linen to speak to farmers in a Venezuelan barnyard. She declines to honor all the petty requests that pour into the White House, ignores most of the President's political rallies, turns down invitations from women's groups who are constantly nagging her for an appearance. She water-skis, rides, plays golf, and yet remains an attentive mother to her children...
...dropped around with an evening-saving message. "In my theology," proclaimed Boston's homegrown Roman Catholic archbishop, "gambling in itself is not a sin . . . It's the abuse that makes gambling evil. We all have our faults. But why hang them, as it were, like dirty linen on a clothesline from one end of the country to the other? Someone betrayed us . . ." But, though it earned lusty cheers from the ballgoers at the Boston Garden, Cardinal Cushing's apologia won him no points with local Protestant clergymen, one of whom tartly noted that while bookmaking...
...fall, Monro has evinced unusual impatience with debate on issues that he has already made up his mind about. "Worrying about dirty laundry is a waste of time, in view of the other problems before the University community," Monro snapped to student representatives who were inquiring about the HSA linen depot system in the Yard. Dirty linen itself is a petty issue, but the shoddy handling of the depot system by the Administration and the suspicious reluctance to explain its innovation are grounds for student concern and continued investigation. (Freshman Dean von Stade thought the issue important enough to discuss...
Even the softest mattress and smooth est linen are rough on patients burned so extensively that they cannot rest in any position without lying at least partly on a burned area; the healing, moreover, is much delayed. Another big class of patient that yearns for levitation is the spinal paralysis victim who gets bedsores. So the University of London's Orthopedic Surgeon John T. Scales got the idea of supporting patients...
...Winthrop resolution called for investigation of "the obligation to student required by the HSA's monopoly status at Harvard" and of the "criteria involved in determining 'needy students." A study of the complaints caused by the linen depot system, beer mugs, and other HSA services was also asked...