Word: shared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could get to know some students might take some of the pressure of writing recommendations off the Masters and Senior Tutors. But since that itself is so difficult a number of more immediate expedients are being discussed. Some Houses get pre-med and even pre-law advisors to help share the paper work burden, others find that men with no function but recommendation-writing have a hard time finding a place in the House. A couple of Houses have asked for an extra Assistant Senior Tutor on 1/5 time to process applications...
Plenty of other student couples share co-ed flats-so many, in fact, that the New York Times last month decided to run a story on students' light-housekeeping arrangements. To a reporter for the paper, Peter and Linda freely explained that they began living together because they regarded marriage as "too serious a step." As for Barnard's strict housing regulations, which require that noncommuting students under 21 live in supervised housing unless they have live-in jobs, Linda explained that she had simply given the college a false address where, she told the school...
Plastic Seaweed. As usual, man has contributed his share to the process of erosion. He has lined the beaches with hotels, apartments and roads, leveled the high dunes that blocked his view, thus stripping them of their protective grasses. Navigational jetties, jutting into the sea to protect shipping at river mouths, and man-made inlets change the pattern of offshore currents and block the littoral flow of sand to downdrift beaches, literally starving them out. There is no easy way to combat erosion. All along the Atlantic, communities have lined their beaches with "groins" (short jetties) in hopes of trapping...
...Since 1954, FNMA has required lenders who sell it loans to buy common stock as a condition of each transaction. Under current rules, lenders must buy stock (at book value of $130 per share) equal to 1% of the loans they sell. Fannie Mae's is the only stock of a Government corporation traded on the private market...
...important thing is not so much what they say but that they say something that will get them on the evening news. "Our leaders," says Columbia University President Grayson Kirk, "are expected to appear almost on call before the television cameras, to hold innumerable press conferences, and to share their thoughts, even if they may be fragmentary and half-formed, with everyone in the country. No leader can long survive such ordeals and emerge from them unscathed...