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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bontche, a poor man's J.B. who has taken life in the teeth without ever uttering a word of protest, Paul Richards shows his versatility. If it was joie de vivre before, it is mal de vivre now. Without saying a word he conveys utter abjectness, outdoing J.B. himself, who at least had fond memories. Arriving in heaven, Bontche is judged by God to be so innocent that anything in heaven is his for the asking. What Bontche asks for, and the way in which he asks for it, are so humble that God and the angels cannot but hang...
...There may be reluctance to criticize the work of the Court for fear that any such criticism would be taken out of context by opponents of the segregation decisions and used to bring disrespect to the orderly process of constitutional adjudication," Clark Byse, professor of Law, declared in the December Law Review...
Results of a student opinion poll taken last week show that 260 of 422 students polled prefer to have the Field House used as a coffee shop. A stronghold of opposition to the change has been Holmes Hall, located across from the Field House, where students fear the noise such a center would produce...
With the death of Professor Derwent Whittlesey in 1956, the once-flourishing program of geographical studies at the University ended completely. The Geographical Institute stood empty for two years until it was finally taken over by the Department of Mathematics, another symbol of the demise of geographical studies...
...Dday. Half a dozen or more top German officers besides Rommel were absent from their coastal commands. Some of these, ironically enough, were taking part in a Kriegsspiel, a war game simulating an enemy landing in Normandy. On the very eve of Dday, the Seventh Army, guarding Normandy, was taken off alert because the weather was bad and all previous Allied landings had taken place in fair weather. The 124 planes of the 26th fighter wing stationed near the coast were pulled back on June 5. The only daylight action of the Luftwaffe on D-day was one two-plane...