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Samuels denied the rumor that the Forum had been considering the Rindge Technical High School Auditorium as a site for the Hoffa speech, in the event of an overflow crowd...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Hoffa Cancels Appearance As Speaker at Law School | 10/22/1959 | See Source »

...overflow crowd of 400 in Mallinckrodt Large Lecture Room rose in a standing ovation to Conant when President Pusey named the four-story addition in honor of the former President. "This new building fulfills the needs Mr. Conant foresaw years ago," Pusey stated as he lauded the work of his predecessor...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: New Laboratory Named For President Conant | 10/20/1959 | See Source »

...Throwing up partitions at Portillo, he figures to expand capacity to 500, with $150,000 worth of ski lifts to haul them all. Even before remodeling and expansion, news of the new Portillo passed around so fast that Navarrete found himself with a season-long full house-plus an overflow that helped flood ski towns all along the Andes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ANDES: Up to Ski | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...country. Wrestling with precedents that go back to the Twelve Tables of 450 B.C., to the Caesars and Hadrian and Justinian, plagued by remnants of the Code Napoleon and the harsh Fascist glorifications of police and state, baffled judges let dockets pile up. Cases drag on, and prisons overflow with prisoners still awaiting trial. The solution: a periodic amnesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Fresh Start | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...money it cost, the proud new S.O.B. was more vexatious than a slippery collar button. The clocks had bronze hands that were too heavy to hold the time. The mail chutes choked up with letters, had to be taped closed. Slow-moving elevators forced Senators to overflow into freight lifts. Private conversations were being filtered into the corridors through louvered air ducts in the doors. Long-legged lawmakers cracked their kneecaps against low-slung desks. And the new subway to the Capitol lay dead-ended about 250 ft. short of its destination (cost to complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Great White Goof | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

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