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...addition to these structural problems, a host of organizational and internal squabblings have hindered the assembly. Many of its 96 members, some of whom say they are frustrated by a year of disputes, have come to pin their hopes for an effective student voice in University policy-making on a thorough review of the system of student-Faculty committees set up by the Fainsod Committee ten years...
...Radcliffe Quadrangle, obeyed strict 10 p.m. parietals, and used either the Radcliffe library or Widener, never Lamont. In Widener, they were warned not to walk down the center aisle of the reading room so as not to draw excessive attention. Many members of the Class of '54 seemed to pin their hopes on meeting and marrying a Harvard man, although The Crimson reported, in September 1951, Radcliffe women faced stiff competition from their more "genteel counterparts" at Wellesley. Back in '51 The Radcliffe Quarterly could quote a professor's remark without much hesitation: "The Radcliffe girl carries feminism and femininity...
...them how to choose wines and why solos were more acceptable to Him than duets. He told them the secret causes of inflation - 'It's the markup,' He said - and which was the best color and how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. He explained why English was the first language at Miss Universe pageants and recited highlights from the eighteen-minute...
...sticks something down his throat or up the other end of his anatomy, cuts him open or takes his picture?receives a much larger amount of money." A fierce dispute rages over how much unnecessary surgery is performed on Americans each year. Though the precise figure is impossible to pin down, no one doubts that at least some doctors will operate on patients who could get by without surgery simply because the Government or a private insurer will...
National health insurance is a perplexing matter to assess. The issue is also confusing because it takes so many different forms, and the costs, some of them stupendous, are so difficult to pin down. Nearly all sponsors seem to agree, however, on one point: the current mood against increased spending precludes any costly health insurance program for some time...