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...close to perfect, and Kirkland's creaky eighteenth-century library is good on a light-to-medium day. Such facilities can handle only a limited number of students, however, and the next best thing is a room so large that no single person is distracting. In Lamont, a small stall partition is enough to isolate the student from the rest of the room...

Author: By Jonathan Boorstin, | Title: Hilles Library | 10/11/1966 | See Source »

...after flyballs among the maze of overhead girders. The Scoreboard's video screen, all 1,800 electronic sq. ft. of it, is a study in psychological warfare. When an opposing pitcher is lifted, the screen shows a sad little character immersed by the rising water in the shower stall. During rows with the umps, the sign razzes: OH MY, NO! "I'm waiting for a big box filled with cherry bombs, firecrackers-the works," snarls Chicago Cubs Manager Leo Durocher. "It's the answer to all that stuff they pull in the Astrodome. Houston is bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Climbing into Orbit | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

...shaping into a test case; Miss Buchanan's defense is in something less than the best tradition of the courageous press, and District Attorney Frye's prosecution is less than a paragon of justice. Buchanan is reported as having said that she will appeal the case to stall for time (the appeal should take about a year) and if she is still required to come up with the names at that time, she will be perfectly willing to reveal her sources. "A year from now people won't be around and I'll be through with school." Someone should have...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: The Fourth Estate | 7/5/1966 | See Source »

...scholastic tendency has hit trivia. Edwin Goodgold and Dan Carlinsky alphabetized all the major trivialities and arranged them so that you can't see the answer without having the person in the next stall at Lamont know you're cheating. A special twenty-question section for the connoisseur, even asks you to name Milton Berle's mother. (No, not Mrs. Berle.) A reading period necessity published by Dell for only fifty cents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN BRIEF | 5/12/1966 | See Source »

Replying to the French eviction notice, the U.S. made it clear that it will need more time to move than De Gaulle wants to give and that, if necessary, it will stall and haggle to get it. Principally drafted by former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who two weeks ago called De Gaulle's view of the NATO alliance "utter nonsense," the reply's first version was so strong that Lyndon Johnson winced at it, sent it back to be given a milder tone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: Opening Duel | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

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