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...have gone from $1.8 million in 1971, its first year of discounting, to an expected $8 million this year. Operating on gross profit margins of about 12%, less than half as much as other appliance dealers, the Rosenbergs will post net earnings of about $250,000 from their single outlet...
...genesis of the genre lies in the fact that, when pressure has built up for a long time and an outlet is at last afforded, there is likely to be an explosion. Under the intolerant Puritan regime of Oliver Cromwell, the theatres were kept closed for nearly two decades--"The grey Puritan is a sick man, soul and body sick," wrote D.H. Lawrence. With the accession in 1660 of Charles II, who liked the theatre, the lid blew off, and licentiousness swept high society. The Restoration aristocrats would have agreed with Havelock Ellis that sex is "the central problem...
...Commission is now the only official outlet for student complaints. Before this month hardly anyone at Harvard knew it existed, and as a result the cases it has handled have been personal complaints rather than matters of University-wide importance. Now, for the first time, it is faced with the case that could make it an important force at Harvard...
Harvard's radical political groups and the Commission of Inquiry should be good for each other. The radicals give the Commission the publicity it wants, and the Commission gives the radicals an official University outlet for their complaints...
Some societies, especially the Graduate Schools' organizations, espouse no cause other than entertainment. A few societies are yet another outlet for House Committee members' organizational drives-- "a communal activity" as a Winthrop House member put it. But Martha Miller is skeptical of the notion. "How much House camaraderie is there watching a movie?" she asks...