Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in December, Princeton's basketball team lost to top-ranked Michigan a scant two points, but the experts "fluke" after the Tigers had sprung the upset of the year, Last Saturday Princeton bombarded ranked Providence, 109 to 69, win the Eastern regionals of the NCAA basketball tournament, but the keptics were still unconvinced...
...rush? Certainly not the advertising; the government itself spent a scant $107,000 last year to push tourism, though the airlines and hotels upped the total considerably. First of all, it is the climate. "This is the place with the weather Miami advertises," cracks the Director of Tourism. Then there are those fast jets with their low, low air fares ($104 round trip, economy class), and the idea of having a Latin adventure not too far from home without worrying about visas-or rocks and riots. "You get a little of the Latin influence," said a blonde from Rhode Island...
...December, the Undergraduate Council asked that parietal hours be extended from 9 p.m. to midnight on "every Friday evening except during vacation, examination, reading, and club election periods." The Council based its request on a poll which indicated that a scant 13 per cent of Princetonians study in their rooms on Friday evenings...
...that there be no voting in the 19th Assembly until Russia pays at least one-third of its arrears. As a result, the Assembly has so far been idly discussing matters requiring no vote, while behind the scenes a search for a compromise goes on-thus far with scant success...
...bigger surprise is Italian Actress Lisi, an import whose dramatic talent graced two dozen European films before Hollywood discovered her smartly turned sense of humor. Speaking scant English, newly blonde and lacquered to the customary high gloss, she translates her U.S. movie debut into a triumph of personality that will probably establish a long-term policy of lend-Lisi. She is devastating to behold as a centerpiece, though she somehow makes hard-sell sex seem at least as classy as caviar. She is delightful to listen to when she explains with gestures the stunning miscarriage of justice by which...