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...college rules are contained in the Gray Book. Years ago, the Gray Book was an inch thick and each freshman was given a written test on its contents. Now there are no such tests and the Book is thinner. But looks are deceptive. Some rules have been relaxed; others carry their exactitude to ludicrous lengths. If the Gray Book is any clue, Wellesley's heart is still back in the old days...
With anxious attention now focusing on 1967, early-reporting U.S. corporations are supplying emphatic reminders that 1966, despite a selective year-end slowdown, was the most prosperous year in U.S. history. Items: Bethlehem Steel, in an industry that often seems to roll its profit margins thinner year by year, far outstripped its 3.5% sales increase with a 14% rise in earnings to $171 million. To fatten sales as well, Bethlehem is pushing an invasion of the Midwest with a $500 million expansion of its Burns Harbor plant near Chicago, long a virtual fiefdom of Inland Steel...
...fine spring afternoon last spring three Harvard students were walking from William James Hall to Harvard Square. There was a tall thin student with brown hair and a shorter thinner student with black hair and fiery eyes. And there was somebody else, too. These three Harvard students were discussing social science, the upper, middle and lower classes, and the equation of spunk with virtue...
...entered the chamber of the House of Representatives, the assembly rose and gave him an unusually warm round of applause that lasted for nearly two minutes. As the President stood on the podium, he looked healthier than he had in many a month. His hair was a bit thinner and greyer, but an expensively tailored suit and a specially cut shirt collar helped give him a trim look. His manner was that of a man who had made up his mind to ignore outrageous slings and arrows and concentrate on the duties before...
...have hoped to attract new recruits to its ranks. From a strength of 500 full-time terrorists only three years ago, the organization can now count on fewer than 250 full-time gunslingers. By the time Leoni's drastic new cleanup campaign is over, the ranks will be thinner still...