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Eighty-one married University students, sixteen of them with or expecting children, have yet to find permanent accommodations is the Cambridge area, according to a report by the housing committee of the University chapter of the American Veterans Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVC Finds 81 Married Students Lack Rooms Under Allotment Plan | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...Sixteen minutes later, however, three cab drivers were munching catchupted scramblings in blissful ignorance of legislative dicta. The college men had left disconsolately sharing one unsugared doughnut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Esophagi Growling for Protein Run into Curt "No" as Clocks Stop | 10/18/1947 | See Source »

...will graduate or otherwise leave at midyear this will spell only 275-odd housing openings because of the decision of the House Masters to drop back as soon as possible to the "fifty percent above normal" quotas of last Spring. This ruling means that the absorption of the sixteen or twenty men now added to the House rosters will not be considered to provide "vacancies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Round Two | 10/10/1947 | See Source »

Since Hollywood usually offers nothing more thematic than the problems of young love, a picture about racial bigotry is bound to be released amid the discouraging year of a press agent's sixteen gun salute. But, mirabile dietu, "Crossfire" presents prejudicial problems frankly and smoothly, even though one or two seenes keep the audience aware of the picture's birth in stereotyped storyland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/2/1947 | See Source »

Poland's Russian-controlled Government also tried out some static, Moscow style. Sixteen Poles were convicted of spying for "a foreign government." One of the charges was that they had supplied ex-Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane with material for his article "How Russia Rules Poland," which appeared in LIFE, July 14.* The sentence: death for nine, long imprisonment for seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Static | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

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