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...under unearthly neon lights, livid-hued customers sip their grisly 'shakes' or study a menu card which offers a wide selection of chemical concoctions made from substances utterly foreign to the milk-giving cow. For as little (or as much) as one shilling ninepence, the determined pleasure seeker may numb his insides with a 'frosted chocolate snowball' (frozen soya bean flour with mock cocoa gravy), a 'Hollywood Delight' (cold soya stew with ice vegetable jam), a 'Moo-moo Special' (mixed leftovers studded with damaged grapes) or a dollop of 'Stratosphere Kisses...
About 200 students and teachers in the University applied this year. The Institute of International Education then nominated 38 of these men for awards. After nomination, the Fulbright seeker must be approved by the State Department and placed in a foreign university by the U.S. Education Foundation. It is expected that about 25 more of the present nominees will receive notification of their awards in the next two or three weeks...
...reformer (Dick Powell) is a cynical young office-seeker posing as an advocate of good government but willing to make a deal with a shady political boss (Ray Collins). The redhead (June Allyson) is the zookeeper's daughter, a naive hothead who is ardently humane to the wild animals that her father takes home whenever they need a rest cure. When Boss Collins gets her father unjustly fired, June appeals to Powell for help, takes a hand in his mayoralty campaign, and finally reforms him into a real reformer, and, presumably, an ideal husband...
...initial difficulty attendant to this problem is finding a good definition of the term "whole man." Is he the "complete Rabelaisian man" to whom Aldous Huxley refers: "great eater, deep drinker, stout fighter, prodigious lover, clear thinker, creator of beauty, seeker of truth and prophet of heroic grandeurs?" To know whether or not Harvard trains "whole men" it is necessary to know what such men are and it will be difficult to arrive at any definition which will not either outrage the convictions of a segment of the student body or else be so abstract as to be meaningless. Furthermore...
...main reason for the savings is that books are classified by size instead of subject matter, which allows twice as many books to be crowded into a certain space. This makes it rather difficult to find books on a certain subject; the seeker must know the position of each separate volume...