Word: roome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences with the less academic, professional fields, such as medicine, business and law. But, more important, it is an economical solution to what could be an unpleasant financial problem. Both of the alternates--deconversion of overcrowded suites by putting students into the vacated rooms, and use of the empty rooms for non-resident tutors' offices--would force the present number of students to pay for a larger number of rooms--presumably through a sizable increase in room rents, and reduction of rent adjustment...
Since nominations are made by party politicians, Kennedy's hardest politicking was with 275 party faithful at lunch. He mentioned every important guest in the room and every top Democratic office holder, present or not, before he swung into a lively demonstration of his talent for flaying Republicans...
...which has no love for visiting Labor politicians. Headlined the Sunday Mail: M.P. TELLS AFRICANS "WE ARE WITH YOU!" There followed the kind of story which stirs up indignant letters from settlers. To make matters worse, Stonehouse invited three Africans to dine with him in the very dining room that Barbara Castle had made memorable. Finally, one midnight, an immigration officer got Stonehouse out of bed to warn him that he could be declared a "prohibited immigrant." Next morning, after a "token struggle," Stonehouse found himself on a plane bound for Tanganyika...
...miners have been laid off. Continued production at Belgium's notoriously uneconomic Borinage shafts (TIME, March 2) added to the stocks of 7,000,000 tons of coal already piled up in Belgium, so that, as one coal producer put it, "we literally have no more room anywhere to put the coal we produce which nobody will...
Tillich lives with his wife in a cluttered, 3½-room apartment on Chauncy Street in Cambridge (his son René Stephen, 24, is a Harvard student, his daughter Erdmuthe Christiane Farris, 33, a Manhattan housewife). At 72, Tillich has all his old intellectual vigor, though he may doze off for moments during a conversation, and he goes through a regular, 10-minute "yawning period" every day at 6 p.m. An occasional stimulant at that time: cognac, which is kept in his office filing cabinet under "H" (for Hennessy). Tillich is likely to be on the road lecturing three...