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...Last year a record 2,500,000 people trooped through the park; this year the rate is running 17% higher, and campgrounds are usually completely filled by 10:30 a.m. Campsites at Utah's Zion National Park have been crammed to capacity since early June, and a new "overflow" area is overflowing. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, stretching across parts of Tennessee and North Carolina, draws 6,000,000 visitors a year, highest of any park in the system, and traffic on summer weekends backs up for 20 miles on either side of the two main entrances...
Though he can make any flippancy sound quotable just by arching his eyebrows over it, Grant is never left on his own to build a flimsy notion into a one-man show. Sol Saks's dialogue bristles amiably from first to last, and when blithe spirits threaten to overflow the tiny three-room flat, Director Charles Walters shuffles words, pranks and players in and around greater Tokyo with a perfectly relaxed air. Hutton, a quizzical comic talent packed into a skyscraper frame, hilariously displays a pained embarrassment over his skill as a wiggly-hipped 30-mile walker...
...find room even for the floaters the Houses will be forced to make room conversions--turn triples into quads Lowell House has already made three such conversions and Watson feels that all eight of the Houses will have to make two or three each to accomodate the overflow...
...Houses had already used other techniques to cut the overflow down to its present level. Last week there were 62 vacancies in the Houses, 87 floaters, and 48 returnees. To deal with this situation Dean Watson removed the quota on off-campus living and allowed the Masters to give permission to live off campus to those juniors and seniors who wished to do so. In some Houses, such as Adams, the quota of 28 set last May by Dean Watson was exceeded, in others it was not. The vacancies created were filled by floaters. If there were any left over...
...years of serving himself gargantuan portions, Hirshhorn has gathered some 5,600 works of art. They overflow his 24-room, 24-acre estate atop Round Hill in Greenwich, Conn., are crammed into the closets of his New York apartment, and accumulate in warehouses. His sculptures alone total 1,600, including 17 Rodins, 53 Henry Moores (the largest collection anywhere...