Word: roome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller cast his vote on the biggest morning of his life in a room stacked with deer heads, moose antlers and stuffed pheasants at Hilltop Engine Co. i Firehouse at Pocantico Hills, N.Y., the village polling place. Rockefeller bought the place some time ago to save it from foreclosure, then let the firemen have it. "How do you feel?" somebody asked. "Great!" said the Rock, 50, and he looked it-chunky, electric, tired but tireless. Way behind entrenched Democrat Averell Harriman at campaign's outset, he was now rated 9 to 5 favorite. "I've done...
Since this group would soon be upperclassman and would require a place to take their meals and socialize, the University had to get up something for them. The best the deans could do was partition off part of the freshman commons and clean out some old game-rooms upstairs for them. This was something like blocking off the small dining room at the Union and airing out some of the little rooms with port-hole windows on the second floor. This scrounged combination was proclaimed with bland irony by the administration, "Wilson Lodge." (Woodrow Wilson always hated the clubs...
Professor Greg's former department still drew students on the strength of his reputation. In the Graduate Study Room there was an oil painting of him. The face was stern, and one could study it without seeing in the eyes and in the set of the face a great devotion to duty. Beneath the portrait was a shelf of Professor Greg's books...
Action was spurred by complaints that Harvard students are unable to find room in the library while many seats are occupied by men not connected with the University...
John Carter Vincent, chief of the Far Eastern Division of the State Department from 1945-47 and Associate of the Center for East Asian Studies, will speak tonight in the Adams House Lower Common Room...