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Every four months or so during Lamont's first year. Radcliffe agitated to be admitted into the functional interior, but library authorities hold firmly to their mono-sexual policy of "Radcliffe has its own books," the Harvard officials...
...holiday season came to subequatorial South America on the crest of a blistering heat wave. In Santiago, Chileans sipping their traditional cola de mono (monkey's tail-milk, cinnamon, and coffee laced with aguardiente), fanned themselves as the thermometer climbed to 93°. At Viña del Mar and Uruguay's Punta del Este, beaches were jammed. So was the graceful white curve of Rio's Copacabana, where young cariocas, lampooning a recently revived city ordinance against walking to the beach in bathing suits, donned dinner coats or silver-fox jackets over their beachwear...
...Vice Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, the chief of the Accounts Bureau of the Finance Ministry and the chief of the fertilizer department of the Commerce & Industry Ministry. More were coming in all the time. As Warden Kojiro Ito rearranged his cells to give individual attention to the Oh-mono (big shots), police arrested former Deputy Prime Minister Suehiro Nishio, who left the government two months ago under suspicion of taking bribes. Premier Hitoshi Ashida and his cabinet resigned the next...
...cabinet. Cynical Japanese newsmen drew up and published a roster of their own, made up entirely of high officials now held in Kosuge prison. Just then, police announced the latest Showa Denko arrest: Kosuge's Warden Ito was charged with accepting bribes from his Oh-mono to help them communicate with their colleagues still outside...
...even finished in the money. It was a bad day for Armed and Assault (it was the last race Assault would ever run). But it was a worse one for Max Hirsch. The 16-to-1 shot that won the race was a handsome chestnut colt named El Mono, which Max had trained and lost in a claiming race a few months ago for a mere...