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...dealer may place a work on sale, then bid it up himself so that the price for that artist will reach a new plateau. In another dodge, dishonest dealers sometimes hold pre-auction conspiracies among themselves: they buy shares in a work that is scheduled for the block and select one of their number to bid on it while all the rest pledge themselves to remain silent. With the competition thus limited, the selected dealer gets the work at a low price. When he, in turn, sells it at a substantial markup, all the shareholders...
...Brown administration has now officially received the student report and has even appointed a select faculty-corporation committee to study and act upon the entire Brown housing system. And all that Brown officials require to create a House system are courage and money; these, especially the first, may prove to be unusually formidable goals...
Fewer Flyspecks. It took a group of private citizens to get things moving. Led by Washington Post President Philip Graham and Investment Banker George Angus Garrett, who was the first U.S. Ambassador to Ireland from 1950 to 1951, a small, select band of Washingtonians organized in 1954 as the Federal City Council. They pleaded their case for a better Washington in the White House and to the Congress, raised $500,000 to start modernizing the city's shabby central shopping district. Their efforts paid off: by 1960, Congress had provided king-sized enabling programs for urban redevelopment, federal building...
After the motion to retain the name Student Council was rejected, the Council decided to give the choice to the student body. On the referendum ballot, voters will be asked to select one of the two names before voting yes or no on the constitution itself. As a result, it will only take a simple majority vote to change the name, but a two thirds plurality will still be needed on the constitution as a whole...
...novel synthesis of Khrushchev's position. In short, the authors address the apathetic and blissfully ignorant ("The Berlin crisis arose at the beginning of last summer and has dominated the news since.") But at its current price of ten cents, Tocsin's forum will never reach beyond a very select minority. All undergraduate pamphleteers would do well to remember that they are writing for a relatively well-informed audience. Goading the masses is not a proper Tocsin function, though urging concerned Harvard students to goad them may well...