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...funds are currently tied up in more immediate projects. Construction costs have doubled since the existing seven Houses were built, and the administration draws a line at economy devices that would make a new House seem inferior in the eyes of the undergraduate. Obviously, it could not be so plush as, for example, Lowell, from its very conception designed as the keystone of the system. But there are ways in which significant savings could be made without any sacrifice of appearance or comfort. Cheaper, equally attractive materials could take the place of wood paneling in rooms, the dining hall...
From the crescents of red plush seats, Deputy after Deputy went to the rostrum to speak the doubts of a nation too weak to defend itself, too proud to acknowledge its weakness even to itself, too fearful to heal it with an arrangement which permits Germany to rearm. As usual, the men on the extreme right, the Gaullists, and those on the extreme left, the Communists, rose in unequivocal opposition. But the bulk of France's parliament formed into a walking, talking tapestry of the confusion that threads through all France's social, religious and party lines...
...medal) for a striking vertical composition called Stage Fright - the terror an actor feels on looking out at row on row of tensely waiting faces in the audience. To achieve the effect of tenseness, Artist Hoff made her faces green, set against a background of red plush seats and surrounded by an ominous. midnight-blue black...
Make Room for Daddy (Tues. 9 p.m., ABC-TV) stars Nightclub Singer-Comedian Danny Thomas, father of three, as a nightclub singer-comedian, father of two. In a role he knows by heart, Thomas is so busy on the road making money to keep his little family in plush surroundings that he is a stranger in his own house. At a rare homecoming, his dog nips at his heels, his wife sings Remember Me, and he finds that his son has ground up his favorite slippers in the Disposall, whereupon he decides to stay home more often and become reacquainted...
...Kill Me Now." Held in strict detention-first in Teheran's plush Officers' Club, then in the Sultanabad army barracks some ten miles from the city-Mossy was allowed to see only his guards, a military prosecutor, his wife, daughter and nurse. But the ex-Premier knew that if his performance was good enough, its fame would spread to the streets and make it harder than ever for the Shah and new Premier Fazlollah Zahedi to get him off the political stage. Resolutely he resisted the prosecutor, who came to interrogate him in preparation for a trial...