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...amendment to the motion was offered by the English Department. It would have the effect of allowing departments to restrain poor students in tutorial programs from writing theses...
...Town-send Copeland, paid a visit to Middle-sex. During an address to the entire student body, Copey found occasion to vent his political spleen by observing, "The world would be a better place without the three L's--Lenin, Ludendorff, and Lodge." Throughout the lecture, Cabot managed to restrain himself, but when it was over he marched up to the platform. Identifying himself coldly, he looked Copey in the eye and said, "I want to thank you for mentioning my grandfather." Speechless, for once in his long and voluble career, Copeland turned to the headmaster and demanded...
Upon arriving at her summer villa near Parma, the Metropolitan Opera's latest girl wonder, pretty, Pennsylvania-born Soprano Anna Moffo, was asked by a spokesman for several Italian opera companies to restrain the Italian press from swooning in print over "L'Esotica's" glamorous charms-the home-grown prima donnas are hitting high "C with jealousy. But Anna only shrugged: "Who ever heard of telling the press what to say? I'm not in the business of smoothing the ruffled feathers of other divas! Opera is a dog-eat-dog business...
...quarter of the university faculty (112 professors) signed a petition supporting Lawson. When he was arrested for conspiracy to restrain trade and commerce, the divinity-school faculty chipped in $500 for bail. The faculty stirred such a fuss that Dean Nelson set about readmitting Lawson. But last week Chancellor Branscomb vetoed the idea, and Nelson quit...
...been tightening money since the last half of 1958 in an attempt to restrain inflationary pressures. Now, despite a slow advance in prices, the Fed feels that inflationary pressures are under control. Some of the unrealistic business exuberance in January that might have started another inflationary spiral in 1960 has been toned down. The Fed was not worried by a sharp rise in installment buying, which is usually the last form of credit to be affected by high interest rates. Installment credit in April rose $533 million to $40.3 billion, the biggest monthly gain since August...