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...Young Democrats claim some 100,000 members on U.S. campuses; the Young Republicans, 150,000. The conservative Young Americans for Freedom has 25,000; the radical leftist Students for a Democratic Society is much smaller-5,500 members-but more influential. What it lacks in size, the S.D.S. makes up in zeal and ability to play the press for headlines. Typically, the S.D.S. has only 60 active members among 4,700 students at Princeton, but it is the biggest partisan organization on campus, and one of its highly committed members was elected chairman of the undergraduate assembly last week...
Columbia agreed to pay for the construction of the community gym and cover the maintenance cost of $75,000 a year. The gym would include a regulation-size basketball court, lockers, showers, weight rooms, and a 75-foot-by-20-foot swimming pool...
...report that Annemarie was 1) making a pilot film for TV, 2) planning to open a gourmet club in a Manhattan townhouse, and 3) about to publish a cookbook. The column also reported that, presumably because of Annemarie's dietary meals, Jackie had slimmed down from a size 12 to a size 8 dress...
...sound on TV has just barely advanced beyond the age of the wireless. Given the tinny speakers in TV sets, producers feel that it is futile to sink money into new studio sound equipment. TV manufacturers argue that a set with a quality sound system would double the size as well as the price of a unit. Besides they say, most people are so indifferent to sound that they are not even aware that many sets have tone-control knobs Still, the fact that thousands of viewers also own high-powered stereo rig: suggests that they may well object...
...writer money while he is writing it. As a result, Kahn admits, he is usually in debt to the New Yorker. "I can't afford to take a year off like those professors can," he says. Because of this set-up, Kahn says he does not worry about the size of his audience for pieces or books. "I write for the editor of the New Yorker...