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...engine, Ford has boosted its own V-8's horsepower from 130 to 162, with optional carburetors and dual exhausts to push it to 182. All cars will come equipped with tubeless tires. The new paint combinations are dazzling, e.g., a white and lavender hardtop with orchid interior. Gaudiest car: the Crown Victoria Fairlane two-door (see cut), which has a thick belt of chrome running across the top of the car to make it look like a semi-convertible phaeton...
...then, as he goes self-importantly about his business, the American male tends to underestimate the power of his women. He forgets that they helped give him Prohibition and the sunken living room, that they choose his ties and the pictures on his wall, that they make him buy orchid corsages and join the Book-of-the-Month Club. Whenever this male forgetfulness about the real balance of power threatens to become habitual, the women tacitly band together to reassert their authority. They have just done so again by taking a pudgy, wavy-haired pianist from Milwaukee to their hearts...
Noteworthy among the herbaria to be exhibited are the Paleobotanical Collection from the Botanical Museum, and the inclusive Oakes-Ames Orchid Collection from the Biological laboratories...
Scheduled for completion this spring, the Herbarium is located at the end of Divinity Ave., next to the Botanical Museum. The new building was planned as the central library and museum for the University's botany collection. It will definitely house the Oaks-Ames orchid collection and all the botanical material now at the Grays Herbarium. In addition, the libraries of Harvard's eight scattered museums and laboratories of botany will be centered at the Herbarium...
...them hunt apartments; the P.T.A. throws parties for them and so do members of the school board. Meanwhile, Minneapolis has hit upon another device for making the profession seem attractive: an "Apple for the Teacher Day," on which all 2,500 women teachers receive - not an apple -but an orchid...