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...three-story rented house near the brown Bassac River, within sight of grazing elephants. His bed, one of the few pieces of furniture in the place, was donated by the landlady. Bachelor Rives and his diplomatic staff of two (a secretary and a communications expert) work in a makeshift office in the servants' quarters, using packing cases as a conference table. It is not unusual for Rives to answer telephone calls himself. The rest of the American diplomatic presence consists of two military men, both colonels and each with two servants, who rush about in rented cars...
...made for the students of Harvard College. This reporter remembers being told in his House that the rather strange arrangement of having each House and the whole Freshman class elect one member each, and then having three members selected at random from the resulting eleven candidates, was a makeshift process. Many students had the impression that the student selections for the Committee of Fifteen were simply a temporary arrangement. This impression was reaffirmed by the fact that the three students who were finally selected were all graduating seniors...
Lacy Elementary School in Hondo, Texas, is so overcrowded that some classes meet in a makeshift room built into the balcony of the auditorium, and in two noisy rooms off the gym. The 500 pupils, mostly Mexican American, are packed so closely together that illnesses spread rapidly among them...
Barred from that fashion of minds, he went on people retreat wholly into themselves or into a makeshift substitute like the frenetic sensuality of the plastic hippie or the cool of the hip intellectual. The hippie's stripped down jargon- "I dig her;" "it's a groove;" "I'm up right" -thwarts emotional expression by stylizing it, he said. "Did you ever try ending a relationship by saving 'I've got to split the scene?" The mocking wit of the hip intellectual may be worse, he said, for it skirts around honest feelings without admitting their existence. "You find...
...atop a garage. The wondrous device belonged to Jacob Zint, a neighbor of the Armstrongs and a draftsman in the Westinghouse plant. "I can't recall that Neil ever said he wanted to go to the moon," says Zint. But as early as 1946, Armstrong was regularly visiting the makeshift observatory and often, says Zint, "he looked right into the Sea of Tranquillity"?the prime site for next week's landing...