Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years as a university, Duke has suffered more than its share of taunts. Created almost overnight by the great Duke (Bull Durham, Lucky Strike) tobacco fortune, it arrived, like Cinderella, dressed for the ball. But what lay beneath the fancy facade? Today, Duke is in a better position to answer that question than ever before. If not yet out in front, it is giving its older sisters in the South an increasingly lively race...
Russell Brace, an undergraduate director of the annual Big Green weekend, predicted yesterday that the only overnight shelter available will be with friends in the area. Fraternities have each been allowed 45 private invitations...
Eight percent, or 2,637 of the 37,000 reserve books issued overnight or on weekends during the period were returned late, Philip J. McNiff, Lamont Librarian, said yesterday. Over 2,000 of these, however, McNiff added, were returned later the same day they were...
...Premier Scelba and Germany's Chancellor Adenauer. It was international fence-mending week. The Italians, who had a list of 72 minor questions to settle with the French (e.g., sea-traffic regulations between Corsica and Sardinia), had offered to journey as usual to Paris, but Mendès overnight made himself something of an Italian hero by going, instead, to Rome...
...Black. Kimpton knew that none of these problems could be licked overnight. The university had borrowed so much from its capital endowment that it was $3,000,000 behind in its repayment. Kimpton ordered his deans to slash their budgets 5%. He reduced his own secretarial staff from 15 to five, uprooted telephones all over the campus. Though he refused to cut faculty salaries, he realized that "you can't do the kind of hatchet job we're doing without its costing you something." He was forced to drop some research projects, could not always replace retiring professors...