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...says her husband, who steered the Times into its long war on the great Los Angeles blight: smog. "Buff and I were driving downtown one day in 1946," says Chandler, "and Buff's eyes started to stream. She looked at me and she said, 'O.K., Norm, when are you really going to do something about this?' So we went to work...
...feel a need for religion, but that religion does not carry over to guide their important secular decisions, that they are dutifully responsive towards government, and that they set great stock by college in general and their own college in particular. "For the most part," he concludes, "a campus 'norm' of values prevails in the 1950's, coast to coast, at state university or denominational college, for the Ivy Leaguer or the city college commuter...
Little is known about the Lord Jeffs, but coach Norm Shepard places them among the "best two or three teams in New England...
Dave Brignam is expected to be on the mound when the Crimson baseball team plays Navy this afternoon on Soldiers Field at 3 p.m. Varsity coach Norm Shepard will reportedly save Dom Repetto for what should be a harder encounter on Saturday, Boston College, same time and place...
...rebels here protest against the everydayness, the drab practicality and utterly unfashionable common sense of the middle-class existence that is the national norm. This battle at Harvard against the colorless certainties and dread gaucherie of the bourgeois, (that is to say, the hometown) is fought for romanticism, for the unordinary and exotic--something to clothe the bare subsistence of bringing-up in a middle-class world...