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Several Houses (notably Quincy and Leverett) have set up temporary barracks in some of their suites in order to take care of the overflow. The Administration, however, is not planning to force the Masters to convert any more rooms. This pressure should soon be alleviated by an increase in the number of students allowed to take private rooms outside the college Dean Watson declared yesterday...
...brilliantly lighted auction ring at New York's Saratoga race track one night last week stood a handsome bay colt. Among the overflow crowd of 1,600 at the open-air pavilion moved white-jacketed "spotters," alert for the telltale gestures-a casual nod, a lifted finger-that signifies a bid. The first horse went quickly. "Sold for $30,000," boomed Auctioneer Milton Dance Jr., rapping his gavel for emphasis. By the time Auctioneer Dance's gavel had fallen for the 48th and last time. $319,500 worth of horseflesh-all paid for in cash-had changed hands...
...fruit. Their weapons were the Indian club, the skipping rope and the trampoline; their uniforms were the leotard, the sweatshirt, and the bloomer; their hearts were uncompetitive and simon-pure. It was amateur night all week. In Stuttgart's commodious Nechar Stadium (capacity 90,000) and in 15 overflow halls around town, the third world festival of amateur gymnasts, the Gymnaestrada (the "way to gymnastics"), was under...
...huge oaks, hickories. spruces and poplars. At Kennedy Meadow, just north of Yosemite Park in the California Sierra, campers hiked along a winding stream through pine and fir forests and sandy flats, fished for brownies and slept under the stars. At Minnesota's Lake Carlos State Park, the overflow of campers slept under picnic tables...
Next night Eddie's pals, Mel Ferrer and his wife Audrey Hepburn, threw a party at the hotel. With half of Hollywood in the hall, Fisher sounded nervous. But an overflow audience forgave occasional flatfalls when he sang the second chorus of That Face! to Liz. She sat, hauntingly convalescent and subject to drafts in her well-cleaved evening dress, chatting with her physician, Dr. Rex Kennamer. Listeners were visibly moved; Eddie, who made a million by having the sort of face that middle-aged ladies want to put through college, probably will have no trouble financing a graduate...