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While the Harvard community calls for divestiture, the Corporation encourages investiture. If the corporate curia surrounding Pope Derek arrogantly ignores the student demand to stop peddling immortality for money, it only invites students to nail their theses on Johnston Gate instead of meekly relegating their efforts to the pits of Pusey...
...Tigers of Princeton nosed out the Crimson, 72-70. Host Yale mustered a mere 17 points to nail down third...
...something they talk about openly in China. Nor do they dress with it in mind. The country's slim, trim women wear no perfume, jewelry, nail polish, or shadow on their almond eyes; for the most part, they march around in the same austere white shirts, shapeless blue pants and sandals as the menfolk. While early marriage is discouraged (men are urged to wait until they are at least 28, women 25), the People's Republic frowns equally on premarital amour, and the unappetizing national costume seems designed to defuse dalliance...
...horror stories floated in from Yale. "Nail 'im to the wall contractually," they said. Brustein was willing to negotiate. He countered the charges from Yale undergraduates by pointing out that he had been hired there to deal only with graduate students and the repertory company, which scarcely left time for the Yale Dramat, the undergraduate society. Nobody seemed to hear him. And there were those space problems...
...Revson) to lend a note of elegance; one woman who uses the perfume was let down to discover that it came from Revlon. Says she: "I bought it because I thought it was Italian." Cosmetics names in general are picked to convey some image, but among the thousands of nail polish and lipstick shade names, the images get a bit fuzzy...