Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intention of quitting her calling. For the enterprising individual, there was still future enough in such establishments as Tokyo's New Opal Hotel, which runs a daily ad in English-language Tokyo papers: "Here is the place you pay only 800 yen with your partner to stay overnight including one free drink. Each room with double-sized bed and radio...
...rifle range, gets his outfit gigged for dirty barracks, spends a weekend emergency pass for home with one of the blonde natural beauties of Southern California. Then, one day, he kicks a live grenade into a sump and saves a buddy's life. He becomes an overnight hero and, more slowly, a soldier...
...born. With limited assists from Philosophers Kierkegaard and Heidegger, Sartre and de Beauvoir decided that life had no purpose, no meaning except what each man could find for himself in his own existence. To the young, hungry intellectuals of a shamed and broken country, existentialism seemed a revelation. Overnight Sartre became its high priest, Simone its No. 1 priestess...
...situation will not be eased by making Mr. Vellucci smile, but by having fewer cars, more space, or both. The University has traditionally attacked the car side of the problem--sending discouraging circulars to Freshman car owners and by enforcing Cambridge regulations which forbid overnight parking. But the University not only enforces the Cambridge regulations with zeal matching the Cambridge police department's; it also gives higher fines, probation for continued violations, and more tickets more often. This may discourage College car owners, but violates the idea that students should be treated equally with Cambridge residents. The University may well...
...University cannot significantly cut back the number of student cars, it should at least make more room for them by urging the City Council to legalize overnight, alternate-side parking. This system would allow fire-trucks to pass and permit Cambridge to clean its streets when the mood strikes, and at the same time considerably ease the present situation. In the meantime, the University should stop taking it upon itself to enforce every night, regulations which the Cambridge police force ignores most of the year...