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...fire began about 4:30 when a spotlight in the room ignited a piece of color- ed paper, which fell on a rug near the couch. As the fire smoked its way to the couch, an occupant of the room, William M. McConahey III '65, discovered and doused...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conflagration Sweeps Quincy House Couch | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...presumably to suggest that a red-eyed Minerva gazes upon the 20th century with something less than Homeric tranquillity. The film's pretensions often make way for the most extravagant display of Bardot nudity yet seen. She appears nude in red light, blue light, and on a bearskin rug. "Do you like my ankles?" she purrs. "My knees? Thighs?" The question seems oddly beside the point for a director ostensibly contemplating the bust of Homer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Off-Course Odyssey | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

...original form. The fact became clear when Secretary of State Dean Rusk was still arguing the MLF case in Paris while in Washington President Johnson casually remarked that the U.S. was "not committed" and would consider "modifications." The Europeans regarded this as the year's most spectacular rug-pulling operation. But it was also a sound decision not to wreck the Western Alliance by trying to force through a scheme hardly anybody really wanted, and as a result the U.S. and France were talking to each other again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: Off Collision Course | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

...desk of Cornell football coach Tom Harp is a little reminder that he has kept close to him since last year. It says Princeton 51, Cornell 14, and he hopes it will inspire his Big Red to turn the tables on the Tigers at Princeton today and pull the rug out from under the Bengal's undefeated season...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: Tigers, Dartmouth, Brown Favored as Season Ends | 11/21/1964 | See Source »

...Council would do well to set up a temporary committee to look into the problems of civil rights in Cambridge and to study Vorenberg's proposal for a permanent civil rights committee. (Temporary study committees are notoriously used to sweep problems under the rug; they can be effective, however, as the Council so recently demonstrated in investigating the projected NASA research center in Kendall Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Civil Rights in Cambridge | 11/19/1964 | See Source »

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