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Exam typing has worked very successfully at Yale, Princeton, and the Harvard Law School for several years. They have easily overcome the only reasons which the Administration can offer for not permitting typing here-space problems and administrative difficulties. Although lack of desk facilities would prohibit typing in many halls, the largest examination room of all-Memorial Hall-could handle just as many typing students on its long tables as those who presently write. Possibly this one hall might handle all the College typers. By posting advance sign-up sheets for students interested in typing their exams, the Registrar could...
...have to tackle the overnight parking problem some other way," he said, "especially in my district around Harvard. I think the only solution is to ask the University to prohibit the students from keeping cars. Most other colleges don't allow them...
...most ever assembled for a 20th Century-Fox picture." It has, by the wind-machine standard, all the qualities of greatness: "Sweep and magnitude . . . Africa . . . CinemaScope . . . color by De Luxe ... a great story . . . irresistible passion," and even "ethnic glories." It lasts for in minutes and it was considered "prohibitively expensive" to make-a fact that unfortunately did not prohibit the studio from making...
Ticking Minutes. In the state house of representatives, a Craig-controlled committee effectively smothered the Jenner forces' road-blocking bill. Thwarted there, the Jenner men made a last stand in the state senate by tacking an amendment onto the budget bill to prohibit the use of state funds for any toll-road purpose. When the budget got to the House-Senate Conference Committee, Craig announced that he would refuse to sign a budget bill that included the amendment. Instead, he would let the assembly adjourn, then immediately call it into special session and present a new budget bill...
...Offered to give (since the law does not prohibit giving) Communist Albania $850,000 worth of wheat flour, corn, dried beans and vegetable oil to see the population (1,246,000) through the annual late-winter-early-spring food crisis. The offer was promptly denounced in Moscow as a hypocritical propaganda maneuver, if Received, from Colorado's new Democratic Governor (and former U.S. Senator) Edwin C. Johnson, Colorado's 1955 nonresident fishing license...