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...remaining $20,000 will be divided between the Funds for Squash and for Tennis, bringing the tennis fund up to $25,000 and the squash fund to $15,000. This will mean an approximate annual income of $2,00 to finance trips to national championships, the Prentice Cup, the southern tour for the tennis team, and other events...
Speaking in the Union in the first of a series of career conferences, Bundy told students not to select courses, extra-curricular activities, or even fields of concentration "to make it look good for a job. The decisions of the individual student must mean something to himself, not to someone else," he added...
...Theater Arts at Brandeis, and a visiting professor at Harvard for the spring term. He is teaching two courses: one on modern stage comedy ("It seems to complement Chapman's 'Drama Since Ibsen'; we have very little overlap.") and the other on the "Literature of Worldliness" ("By worldliness I mean something more than just manners--something that also involves the motivation of social life and the social scene."). Together these two courses imply a great deal about the professor and his interests...
...electric generators to Switzerland's Brown Boveri instead of to the low domestic bidder, suburban Milwaukee's Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. Louisiana Democrat T. Hale Boggs, chairman of the House reciprocal-trade-agreements subcommittee, promised a thorough investigation of the B.L.H. award. Asked Boggs: "Does this mean that we invoke the national-defense clause when an industry at home is having some difficulties, to bail 'em out?" But Pennsylvania's Scott stuck to his guns: "I got the contract. I talked with anybody who would listen to me. I'll take the credit or blame...
...elaborate Greek insult to editorial pencil wielders. Rhypokondylos, used in a fragment of Plato Comicus (sth century B.C.) and meaning "with dirty knuckles," can also, by a slight linguistic stretch, be taken to mean "with dirty pencils," since a later Greek word for pencil is kondylion...