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Third, it will eliminate the problem of an overflow audience at popular lectures or concerts. The overflow can be moved to another auditorium and the program can be broadcast to them. Finally, the Communications Center will provide the University with quick communication in case of emergency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University to Construct Communications Center | 10/20/1951 | See Source »

...just carry it out" is a familiar reply to overnight parkers. This year, the Cambridge City Council and the local police intend to make a lot of money on this quotation. Tightening the law, however, will not solve the parking problem. Since there is always an overflow from available car plots, opening some streets to night parking is the only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Take to the Streets | 10/2/1951 | See Source »

...Radcliffe, there is a seven-building quadrangle and off-campus converted private homes to take care of the overflow...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: 12 Yard Dorms House '55 | 9/12/1951 | See Source »

Veteran Conductor Bruno Walter led the orchestra the first night, drew an overflow crowd of 3,000 (300 standees). He reached back more than a century for his first two numbers: Weber's Euryanthe overture and Mozart's Symphony No. 39. Edinburgh applauded but was hardly swept away. But in the second half, Walter & Co. won a real ovation with Mahler's powerful Symphony No. 4 (1901). Fusing strings perfectly with the horns, the visitors gave Mahler* a sheen that few Britons had heard before. They whistled and shouted, called Conductor Walter back to the podium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Reservations in Edinburgh | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...young fellows in T-shirts and dungarees, but there were also housewives in cotton dresses, a father holding his child on his shoulder to give him a better view. The crowd was good-natured, as if going to a game, and the cops acted like ushers politely handling the overflow at a football stadium. But as darkness fell, some in the crowd got false courage from the night. They tossed firecrackers over police lines. Pressing forward inch by inch, the mob began to push the police back. From time to time the crowd would chant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Ugly Nights in Cicero | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

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