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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more radical suggestion is to reconstruct Leverett entirely within the Grant-Cowperwaithe block. This would mean that McKinlock Hall--the present nucleus of Leverett--would be used for some other purpose, possibly graduate student housing...
When Vag found him, he was sitting at a corner table, staring at a glass of iced tea. "Did you ever wonder about Eskimos?" he asked, after Vag had pulled up a chair. "What I mean is, how they ever stand such a boring life...
...condemning the bomb than anyone else at this conference," he began. "I am as strongly against it as ever. But what this conference must not do is to decide on demolishing the whole fabric of British international relations without putting anything in its place ... To pass this motion would mean that you will send the British Foreign Secretary naked into the conference chamber...
Opera critics wondered whether German tastes were turning to slushaite, or whether Berliners were merely tired. Of Abstract Opera No. 1, Composer Blacher modestly said it was "merely an experiment," then offered good news: "The No. 1 was added as a gag, and does not mean that more such works are to come...
...Russians have put a little ball up in the air, and it seems that the United States is pretty excited about it. "We aren't trying to win a race," the scientists insist, rather half-heartedly staring into the sky. "No sir, it doesn't mean the Russians are ahead in the missile techniques, no sir, it doesn...