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...means of "skip-stop" planning, the architects will reduce construction costs. Every student will have an individual bedroom-study, and each suite has a connected living room on another floor...
...Skip-Stop" Planning...
Just how crucial Ike's health was to NATO morale was demonstrated again that evening. Secretary Dulles had advised him that the evening session would be a routine drafting session, which most heads of government would probably skip, and Dulles suggested Ike could skip it too. But when the news reached the Palais de Chaillot that Ike was not coming, consternation swept the meeting. Quickly, Dulles put in a call to the U.S. residency, told Ike that the other heads of government were there, and that there was a feeling of deep concern. Without more ado, Ike clapped...
Mississippi's lenient marriage laws (no blood test, no waiting period, no parental consent for youngsters) have long made the state a Dixie Gretna Green. Of the state's 66,000 wedding licenses a year, 65% are drawn by out-of-staters who skip across the border from such states as Arkansas, Tennessee and Alabama to take their vows in neon-lit marriage chapels. But last week, Mississippi's hit-and-Mrs. marriage business reached the beginning of the end. Bowing to increased pressure from physicians, ministers and clubwomen, the state legislature passed and sent...
...relaxed, like those of children racing in and out of games. The dancers tie themselves up in little knots and delight in getting out of them gracefully. As the music mocks itself-in a trumpet jeer or a pizzicato poke-the dancers mock the music with a hop, skip or bump. Most dramatic bits: Canadian-born Melissa Hayden's stunning solo variation and a languorous, sensual pas de deux exquisitely danced by Virginia-born Diana Adams and Arthur Mitchell, a talented Negro member of the company. The whole work takes less than 25 minutes, but it unmistakably shows Composer...