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Radcliffe's student government has no constitution. A revised version of the old one was presented at Payday last week for ratification by the student body, but not enough people voted. A two-thirds majority of the college is necessary, and only 400 votes were cast: 395 for, five against. The approval of some 300 more students is required...
...rough with my magnificent prose, and I'd feel in my pocket to see how much dough I had. If I had enough for a railroad ticket, I'd resent what he'd done and walk out. If I was broke, I'd wait until payday and then resent." Little resented his way from Cleveland to Chicago, Paris, Wichita and Oklahoma City. Along the way, he stored up inspiration for a song called Flat on My Prat in Pratt, Kansas. In 1939, Scripps-Howard transferred him to the Houston Press. Overnight Carl Victor Little became...
...Charlie Company's next payday, his buddies dropped $1,800 in a helmet for him, just about all the pay they got. Then the regiment began chipping in, boosted the fund to $4,327, including $900 from regimental members in the U.S. who had known Joe. Last week in Pusan, Joe was being fitted with a Korean-made set of artificial limbs. He still hadn't told his wife-to-be. Said he: "Maybe when she sees me after I get my new arms and legs, she won't be so surprised...
...Unique Breed. In a recent book on Korea, Marine Major Andrew Geer tried to describe the singularity of that unique breed: "Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things: liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in a fight, one is being wasted . . . They are proud, sensitive and haughty to the point of boorishness with other military organizations. A Marine's concept of a perfect battle is to have other Marines on the right and left flanks, Marine aircraft overhead and Marine artillery and Naval gunfire backing them...
High Taxes & Waste. Each payday the taxpayer is reminded of how much of his income the Federal Government is taking, and many a taxpayer believes that a large part of what he pays is wasted...