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...period before Christmas vacation is always marked by an increase of robberies, Matthew J. Toohy, Captain of University Police, has warned. He urges students to be particularly careful when carrying large sums of cash and to lock the doors to their rooms...
Back in July, renowned Birth Controller Margaret Sanger, 77, took a suspicious look at Roman Catholic Presidential Nominee John Kennedy and dramatically announced that she would move out of the U.S.-lock, stock and devices-if he were elected. Last week she changed her mind, decided to give Kennedy's Administration a one-year trial before making any plans for expatriation. Reason: "Some of my friends who are also very close friends of Senator and Mrs. Kennedy have told me that they are both sympathetic and understanding toward the problem of world population...
First, if these ladies can be trusted in Harvard Houses, they can be trusted anywhere. Objections to the proposal for moral reasons can be dismissed on the grounds that morals cannot be legislated now that sign-outs are here. On the same principle it is unwise to lock the barn door once the mare has fled...
LONDON and Paris newspaper readers have been startled in recent weeks by two well-circulated pictures that seemed to symbolize the terrors of the cold war. Hanging from the neck of a dapper U.S.A.F. major was a set of keys. Next to him was a picture of the lock they fit on the control board of a Thor missile emplacement. The starkly simple marking on the switch: War and Peace...
...MAGICIAN OF LUBLIN, by Isaac Bashevis Singer (246 pp.; Noonday; $3.50), is a tender, philosophical tale about Yasha Mazur, who makes his living in the circuses and theaters of 19th century Poland. He can skate on the high wire, eat fire, swallow swords, open any safe or lock (if Yasha had chosen crime, they said in Lublin, no one's house would be safe), and, above all, charm any woman. Blithely, he considers himself neither Jew nor gentile: there is a Supreme Being, he decides, but one who reveals himself to no one and gives no indication of what...