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...crucial question concerning the last suggestion would be the ratio of commuting to residential students. Administration feeling favors a 50-50 ratio, but this would drastically slash the number of commuters from the present 304 to approximately 200. Furthermore, just how such a House would be organized is not at all clear. Regarding the other three proposals, Master Leighton emphasizes that with any further cut in the number of commuters, Dudley would be too small to support its own tutorial program and could not participate in athletic events on an equal basis the the other Houses...

Author: By Richard B. Ruge, | Title: Commuters Question Future of Dudley | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

Auto dealers were beginning to wear a trace of a smile as new car inventories hit a twelve-month low of 936,000 cars. By the end of April, dealers expect to slash this figure to 900,000. Now that dealers were beginning to empty their showrooms and back lots, passenger-car production climbed 20% to the highest weekly level of the year-112,551 new cars. The automakers have scheduled a 7% increase in April production to 415,000 cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sales Yes, Jobs No | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...March 22 The United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Shirley Booth stars as an uncomfortably loyal family retainer in N. Richard Slash's "Welcome Home." Thurs., March 23 Face the Nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mar. 24, 1961 | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...again civil war, Premier Boun Oum and his anti-Communist government talked of victory last week and rushed construction of a concrete and steel war memorial in the capital city of Vientiane. Closing in from north and south, government troops finally cleared a dusty, 150-mile slash of road that serves as the country's major north-south highway between Vientiane and Luangprabang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Waiting for Red China | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...them. Naked torsos are lined up in a sterile examination room like sheep. Barbers briskly shear them. Then come the relentless weeks of screamed orders and merciless reprimands ("Hey, stupid, you shave this morning?" "Get that crummy chin up!"), reaching a crescendo in the savagery of bayonet drill. "Downward slash!" barks the drillmaster. "You know what that means." At that point, the Paris audience invariably gasps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES ABROAD: Visual De Tocqueville | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

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