Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story, which was that the countess had persuaded another lover to forge notes in the Queen's name and sign her name to the contract. The conspirators, it appeared, had even hired a prostitute to masquerade as the Queen and hand a rose to the gullible cardinal at midnight in Versailles' Grove of Venus...
...targets of a bawling mob only a few days before. In came local cops, private cops, state cops and quiet men from the FBI. Down came the Confederate flag atop the Kappa Alpha house, and coeds dutifully obeyed an 8:30 curfew. "Quiet as a good country churchyard at midnight," said Dean of Men William Tate, who had battled the mob alone. Surveying husky Hamilton Holmes, one football-happy alumnus mused: "The more I look at that boy, the whiter he gets." With a rueful smile, one white girl summed up: "Some of us have grown...
Cause for Apprehension. Deploring the boundless energy of Kennedy's task forces ("They have been burning the midnight oil thinking up things for the Kennedy Administration to do"), the Cleveland Plain Dealer suggested darkly: "It remains to be seen whether the gateway to the New Frontier will lead to a Paradise for Planners or the rocky road of hard work and self-sacrifice." In Chicago, the Tribune scanned the economic survey prepared for Kennedy by Paul Samuelson, Walter Heller and other economists, and concluded that the New Frontier might become a retreat to the wartime "regimented economy" of Franklin...
...Inaugural Ball (CBS and NBC, ll:15-midnight). Sidelights and celebrities from Washington's National Guard Armory, with NBC supplementing its regulars with Actress Dina Merrill...
Lady visitors are now permitted in the colleges at Yale on Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 12 midnight, and on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The freshman curfew was not affected by the new ruling...