Word: ref
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easy to see why these tutees found Gilmore reassuring, and why his current history course is so popular. Renaissance and Reformation--better known as "Ren and Ref"--overflowed two lecture halls this fall before it finally found one large enough. During class one of Gilmore's hands inevitably slips into a pocket while the other juggles a piece of chalk. His calmly-delivered lectures do not proceed chronologically, but roam topically instead...
...Communists, and the French had to fight to secure themselves when the war began there. Last week Vietnamese authorities estimated that the city's population was up to 340,000 and that Communist sup port was down to about 30%. From Communist-held areas, thousands of ref- ugees who could not stomach Red taxation, conscription and forced labor crowded the city...
...story at the University of Texas last week was to have been a student ref-rendum. The question: Should the university lift its ban on Negro students? Two days before the poll, the university's five-judge student court called the whole thing off. With last-minute effect, anti-referendum forces had argued that i) a vote to keep the ban would give the Russians another chance to howl at the U.S., 2 ) a vote to lift the ban would bring a lot of howling Texans down on the university's neck...
...announced a Seven Girl Rassle Royal (every girl battling for herself) at the Hippodrome. A widow who described herself as attrac., vivac., affect. & sinc. advertised for a husband in the Los Angeles Mirror. Her reasons: "Wd. enjoy mat. rt. man bec. I did enjoy marriage & comp. Very sinc. Exchange ref. & rec. snap...