Word: straightener
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This week the administration's young, and comparatively new Director of Admissions, Arthur Howe, Jr., decided it had gone far enough. "The Admissions Office has been silent too long," he said, "It is time to straighten this thing...
...method for distributing football tickets will probably be used next year, ticket manager Frank O. Lunden said yesterday while trying to straighten out the biggest ticket mix-up of the season. He did not elaborate, and Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, could not be reached for comment last night...
WHEN TIME'S new Buenos Aires Bureau Chief Philip Payne came to the U.S. recently to straighten out personal affairs and pick up his wife and three children, his lifelong friend. Associate Editor William Forbis, substituted for him in Argentina. Last week the two friends met again briefly in New York, just before Payne flew off to his new assignment. They compared notes on the frustrations of reporting a paradoxical land of blustering dictatorship and seemingly casual living, where bullyboys riot in the streets and solid citizens pretend not to notice. Both Payne and Forbis had their tense moments...
...straighten up when you bend...
...least twenty times during the evening.) Basically, the plot resembles the eternal loves triangle. Cocteau's imagination is such, however, that in this case the such, however, that in this case the triangle turns out to be a pentagon, and at one point the principals even try to straighten things out by introducing another, imaginary person as a sixth vertex...