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...marriage of the present Queen Juliana,who succeeded to the throne at the retirement of her mother Wilhelmina in 1948, to German Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (a former I.G. Farben representative) was long acclaimed as one of the happiest in Europe. Sentimental Dutch editors were known to refer to their conjugal life at the royal residence as "the idyl at Soestdijk," and even the fact of still another generation without male heirs failed to blight the general Dutch satisfaction in the rulers...
...ranking students will deliver the Commencement Parts: David H. Alpers '56 of Kirkland House and Philadelphia will deliver a Latin Disseration; Robert M. O'Neill '56 of Winthrop House and Cambridge and Robert A. Girard 3L will both deliver English Dissertations. Like hundreds of his predecessors, Alpers undoubtedly will refer to "pulcherrimis puellis," the most beautiful young ladies...
...refer to Camilla as the county seat of "the bottom of Georgia's backwoods." May I also point out that it is the peanut capital of the world, only 24 miles from Moultrie, the watermelon capital of the world, and only 28 miles from Thomasville, where President Eisenhower goes to shoot backwoods birds, who doubtless appreciate the honor bestowed on them...
...large proportion of these people are 'treated' by the doctor just because they are tiresome or unhappy . . . Only by grotesque mental gymnastics can they be made out to be ill in any other sense. In fact, the stealing, bedwetting, bad-tempered children whom, as magistrates, we refer for psychiatric treatment, are diagnosed as sick by their very stealing, bed-wetting and bad temper. But what can we say about the parents of these children, some of whom also consent to receive 'treatment' for themselves? In what sense can they be said to be mentally sick? Must...
...supermarkets. As the U.S. family moved to suburbia, Shield also packed up, moved his staff and executive offices out of downtown Manhattan to the heart of a shopping center in mushrooming East Paterson, N.J., where he built a glass-and-cut-stone emporium that chain-store experts refer to as "a mecca for supermarket operators." It is not only a thumping success in dollar sales, but it has become a handy proving ground for every new product and promotion idea...