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...Wilson Lodge was founded last year by the University and supposedly provides "an alternative to the club system" for those who want neither to renounce all social activity for three years of college life nor to pass through the indignity of Bicker and accept membership in one of the seventeen eating clubs. But any one in the university, with the possible exception of the administration, will freely admit that the three-room facility in no sense provides a satisfactory alternative...
...takes a great deal of effort to educate almost one million school children through the age of seventeen, and hard-pressed New York City decided for a while it just couldn't be done completely. The suspension Feb. 6, of 644 problem students onto the streets reflects the Board of Education's desperation with the deliquents who have seriously impeded the public schools...
Ingrained Misgivings. Seventeen days before the Army's satellite shoot, West Pointer Yates grinned expansively at wary newsmen before outlining the missile beat's first set of ground rules. In future, said he, Cape Canaveral correspondents would 1) be briefed off the record each week before scheduled missile firings, 2) get a detailed on-record fill-in on the outcome of some major shoots, 3) cover the tests from vantage points (7,900 ft. from the launching pads) that had previously been off limits to the press. In return for these and other concessions, said Yates, newsmen would...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23--Seventeen ways to strengthen the nation's defenses against Russia were marked out today by a Senate committee which declared: "We are engaged in a race for survival...
...power in the October Revolution, permitted the elections already arranged by the Kerensky government, because they thought they would win. They were stunned at the results. Across Russia, an astonishing 50% of the eligibles voted; out of a total of 707 delegates, 370 were Social Revolutionaries, only 775 Bolsheviks. Seventeen hours after it met, the Constituent Assembly was destroyed. Mark Vishniak, senior member of TIME'S Russian desk since 1946, was a Social Revolutionary delegate from the district of Yaroslav, and was elected Secretary of the Constituent Assembly. His retrospective account of what happened the day democracy died...