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...result of this concentration, a group like Tocsin is making its presence felt less and less in other Houses. To the leaders of the disarmament organization, Quincy, and not the community-at-large, has become the dominant center of discussion and activity. Tocsin members from other Houses pled at the annual election meeting for executives who reside outside Quincy and will be more conscious of their University-wide obligations. (They succeeded in electing only one of four such persons last year.) Finally, to the freshman interested in Tocsin, Quincy is the obvious choice of residence. Master Bullitt complained last Spring...
Undergraduates pled while library officials shook their heads and muttered arguments which ranged from poverty to Massachusetts laws for working girls. The extension of Lamont Library hours seemed impossible; inadequate freshman study conditions and over-crowed House libraries seemed a permanent complaint...
Cambridge politicians pled into their final month of campaigning this week still without a major issue and with what appears to be only one sure-fire winner, a University associate dean, in their pack...
...Turin's palatial Hotel Principi di Piemonte, a short, stocky man in a rum pled suit analyzed Italy's current and long-range troubles. "The real problem," he said, "lies in the decadence of the ruling class - both in politics and business . . . This class no longer has the energy or the intelligence to cope with the situation." The speaker was Adriano Olivetti, boss of Italy's big Olivetti company, makers of everything from typewriters to machine tools, with a worldwide business of more than $30 million a year...
...Smith Club, plaintiff, won the second quarter-final argument of the Ames Competition last night in the Langdell Court Room. Phillip C. Potter and Arthur V. Savage represented the winners, while Edward L. Johnson and Richard B. Miller pled for the defense, representing the Coke Club. All men are in the second year of the Law School...