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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bullock-Befriending Bard. Bull bums differ considerably from ski bums, tennis bums or beach bums. For one thing, they are only spectators. For another, they are invariably well heeled and can afford the proper clothes, hotels and restaurants as well as the sports cars to make all-night dashes of up to 700 miles from one corrida to the next. The most conspicuous bull bum in Spain last week was U.S. Bachelor Kenneth H. Vanderford, 51, who has seen 94 fights this season and whips from city to city in a red Karmann Ghia...
...Princeton's new $3,000,000 dormitory quadrangle, where two buildings recently settled one foot in the mud. Last week, in a third new $520,000 dorm, Princeton Borough Engineer Arthur T. Brokaw padlocked five top-floor rooms as firetraps because of inadequate exits. Said Brokaw, in proper Princeton fashion: "No undergraduates, especially Princeton undergraduates, should be sleeping up there...
Featherbedding. In the early 1950s a reform group was elected, ordered a survey of the schools' business practices. A topflight management firm found colossal waste, no proper accounting, and a great deal of featherbedding in the buildings department. The experts estimated that nearly one-fourth of the nonteaching budget was wasted, but their report was highly technical and the voters missed the point; the old group successfully pinned the label of penny pinchers on the reformers. Anti-reformers swept the 1955 elections. A grand jury has since called the next two years "as corrupt as any in the history...
...produces tremendous body leverage. With this care, Spahn never has had to baby his arm in a game, never has missed a single big-league inning because of soreness. "Pitchers don't go out of baseball because of their age,'' says Spahn. "Either you learn the proper ways of throwing or you don't last...
...more obvious distortions. For example, although in his day-to-day campaigning Nixon continues to make much of Kennedy's alleged "I would have apologized to Khrushchev" remark, he didn't dare bring it up with Kennedy on the same stage ready to place it in its proper context...