Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest clash of interests centers about parking space. It seems that tax-type citizens object to members of Dunster and Leverett Houses usurping the streets that surrounded those Houses. City Councillor Sullivan sides with the taxpayers. He figures that they should have the advantage of those parking spaces, despite the fact that it is theoretically as illegal for tax-payers to park there as it is for students. But anyone who has beaten the system by parking overnight--without ever being ticketed--on those streets that are generally filled with Massachusetts license plates know that theory is a very relative...
...Sydney W. Britton of the University of Virginia kept chimpanzees around the house. He treated them well and grew quite fond of them. His object: to learn from the chimps why their distant human cousins have big brains and walk on their hind legs. Last week, at a meeting of the National Society for Medical Research in San Francisco, he told his theory...
...Last week the U.S. made good its promise. World Bank President Eugene Black proposed that an International Finance Corp. be chartered with $100 million in capital, membership of the 56 nations "that belong to the World Bank. Principal customers will be businessmen in underdeveloped countries who need capital but object to the meddling that comes with government-guaranteed World Bank loans. IFC will open its doors as soon as 30 nations have paid in $75 million, probably next year...
...revision of the McCarran-Walter Act. Surely the entire Republican Party has not suffered a collective attack of amnesia on the subject of immigration. And one wonders how far Secretary Dulles will carry the logic of his bipartisan position. Not only Corsi, but Dulles himself has been the object of considerable Congressional criticism recently. Will the Secretary now offer his own resignation to promote Congressional harmony...
...gambling czar, kills a man, takes over a bookie ring of his own. He all but forgets about reporting as he becomes infatuated with the world of crime -with its sense of power, its money that produces a kind of evil freedom, its masculinity ("The deferential male is an object of derision to criminal woman"). Much of this first novel's wayward charm lies in its passing epigrammatic remarks. Sample, on a TV M.C.: "He was a matador who played human beings instead of bulls." On reporters: "They have, every two or three years, the satisfaction of being told...