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...space provided by the building of the new House will not, however, be sufficient to remove Claverly from use as an overflow dormitory. The decision on the use of that structure will probably not be made until the Leverett addition is completed...
...threatened to strike Trans World Airlines and Eastern. All six airlines-American, Capital, Eastern, Pan American, T.W.A., United-have agreed to put on extra flights along routes they also serve to take care of the passengers of any struck line. The lines plan to make no profit on the overflow traffic. They will turn over all earnings, after taking out operating expenses, to the strikebound line. The pact's major immediate effect: competitors United, American, Eastern, T.W.A. will give Capital enough funds to cover its $50,000-a-day loss in operating revenue. But if CAB disapproves the agreement...
...people to come to concerts. Now they're always packed." Reason is that the Broadcasting Commission has trumpeted the cultural values of good music as a measure of a town's civic taste. In towns whose chief diversion formerly was hunting kangaroos and rabbits, overflow crowds climb nearby trees to listen through the open windows. Occasionally, aborigines show up and solemnly swig plonk (Australian slang for wine...
Oppenheimer spoke as scheduled, and despite an April snowstorm drew an overflow crowd to Sanders. Threatened student pickets failed to materialize and the series continued without incident and with dwindling attendance, as the theoretical physics of the lectures failed to excite large crowds for all eight lectures. Oppenheimer did, however, live in Adams House and met and talked with many undergraduates during his stay, creating at least as much interest in this way as the Veritas boys had in theirs...
...there is no better entertainment, to judge from the attendance, than the weekly meetings of the five-man nonpartisan city commission. Spectators throng city hall to witness the give and take of sewerage, highway problems and business licensing laws, and frequently the meetings are broadcast to overflow crowds in the corridors. Three TV stations film every byplay, five radio stations record every word of what Wichita fans call "the Tuesday night fights." One reason for the excitement: a furious feud between Commissioner John Stevens, 47, Wichita-born, of Lebanese descent, spokesman for the Lebanese-American colony known as "Syrians...