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...that is very satisfied with its House experience. Thus the substantial support for the present system. However, while a majority of students are happy with this system, I would submit that even a larger majority would be happier in the diverse inconveniences resulting form their distance from other Houses, Quail residents are just as satisfied with their Houses as are River House residents. This is primarily a result of the greater diversity found in the Quad environment resulting-from a modified random system I would cite the Quad Houses as my example...
...Patterson, the highflying, unorthodox executive vice president of Oklahoma City's Penn Square Bank. While negotiating million-dollar deals in restaurants during the early 1980s, he would sometimes regale out-of-town clients with such stunts as drinking beer out of his cowboy boot or stuffing a roast quail into his pocket. In his office at Penn Square, he would sport Mickey Mouse ears or a hollowed-out duck decoy on his head. Patterson's lending ideas were just as madcap; his department invested 80% of the bank's lending portfolio in risky oil and gas ventures...
...sleepy mountain town was heretofore known chiefly as the birthplace of Louise McPhetridge Thaden, winner in 1929 of the first cross-country Powder Puff Air Derby for women aviators. Now it is famous as the home of Walton, an individualist who flies his own Piper Aztec, hunts quail, and is worth $500 million to $700 million...
...Then he retires to his country home in Oyster Bay, Long Island, and renews his acquaintance with Sally, his third wife, who is director of the Jeffrey II ballet troupe, and their two sons, 14 and twelve. He putters in the garden, raises such wild game as pheasant and quail in his duck pond and plays tennis. He also listens to music, the kind that soothes and softens a Sunday. Chamber music, of course...
...Kris Quail Rochester, Mich...