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...President's conservative statement indicates, moreover, it will take a great deal of time before a new House rises from the Cambridge pavement. A structure comparable to Lowell, which was built in 1930 for $3,500,00, would cost approximately $12,000,000 today. This is a substantial sum of money, and the task of raising it is further complicated by the absence of donors like Edward Harness, who spontaneously gave some $13,000,000 to found the House system. In the present crisis the University's fund-raisers will probably have to approach a number of wealthy individuals...
...afternoon in 1953, as she was playing volley ball in the schoolyard, Bernadete fell, giving her right elbow a nasty crack on the pavement. X rays showed a simple fracture, but the pain grew worse until last year, when a surgeon operated twice to remove tumors. When she failed to recover after the second operation, she was moved to the sparsely equipped, twelve-bed cancer hospital in the coastal city of Recife, where Dr. Valdemir Lopez, the hospital's director, found that a form of cancer (osteosarcoma) had spread from her arm to her right lung. He told...
...incident sped across the Aegean Sea, they became wildly embellished in the Istanbul headlines. Soon thousands of angry Turks were surging through the streets, bent on destroying stores run by Istanbul's Greek-speaking minority. The rioters shattered shop windows, tore down steel shutters, littered the pavement with heaps of merchandise, and beat up policemen who tried to restrain them. Shouting "Cyprus is Turkish," rioters set fire to buildings and Greek Orthodox churches, while others seized a Cadillac belonging to Greek Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras (a gift from Cinemogul Spyros Skouras) and shoved it into the Golden Horn...
...thousands it was their first experience in democratic procedure. In the new immigrant village of Ta'oz in the Judean hills, a fragile-boned Yemenite, who a year ago had been forced to step off the pavement of his native town if an Arab went by, cast the first vote of his life. Down in the Negev, the Bedouins in their black cloaks tethered donkeys and camels outside the polling stations, stood patienlly alongside their Jewish neighbors, waiting their turn. Brooklyn's Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, of the Congregation Yetv Lev, in an effort to persuade Orthodox Jews...
...night flight to Rabat on business. As he and a friend were about to enter their car, two black Citroëns crossed the deserted plaza and slowed down. There were two bursts of machine-gun fire. Lemaigre, with 13 slugs in his body, dropped to the pavement, mortally wounded. The 9-mm. bullets were of the type used by Casablanca police...