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...typical give-'em-hell, revivalistic style that he calls "spizzerinctum." Typical spizzerinctum: "When you come to the end of the road, what you and I want to hear is the Great Scoutmaster reaching down the hand of comradeship and saying 'Come on up higher. You did a swell job down there on earth . . .' " By the time all the spizzerincta were spizzed out, Mayor Sensenbrenner was out of office. Winner, to everybody's surprise but his own, was lackluster Wallace Ralston Westlake, 52, independent Republican city council president. Westlake made a colorless "nice guy" campaign for better...
According to Wilbur J. Bender '27, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, the loan increase will help swell the amount of College funds granted to nearly 50 per cent of undergraduates through scholarships, loans, and jobs to approximately $2.6 million...
...Conservative Judaism, and he finds Orthodoxy hale and hearty despite the stringencies of its demands in the world of the barbecue pit and the P.T.A. There has been, he admits, "a well-known cascading-from orthodox to Conservative, and from Conservative to Reform groups. But Reform does not swell as it might, because of attrition into disinterest and loss of identity. Nor, curiously, does orthodoxy seem to diminish ... It is, if anything, on the rise...
...satisfied. We all love the "ape" and think he's the most. It's really a cool place; no stuffed shirts there telling you to go away, no sir; they invite you to come right in and look over the place. I think that's real swell. ANGELA ADAMS
Without a word, his three brothers dived into the roiling fray, now almost at the shelf's edge, and clutched the shark's body, fins and tail. Panic-stricken, the shark lunged to escape-but in the wrong direction, toward the shelf-and an incoming swell lofted the four boys and the fish in a thrashing mass into the shallows' foot-deep waters. Grabbing rocks, the brothers clubbed the shark to death. Ten minutes later, alarmed fishermen racing to the scene found the four small boys, exhausted but proud, resting beside their unorthodox catch: the still twitching...