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...counted 13 major building projects started in 1956 alone. Among them: a $6,000,000 federal office building, two new $1,000,000 banks, a $2,000,000 office building for Imperial Oil Ltd., and four other office buildings of six to eleven stories. A record-shattering housing boom thrust new residential suburbs out into the prairies faster than streets and sidewalks could be built to serve them. Power lines, sewers, bus routes are growing, but never quite fast enough to keep up with the demand. It takes a year to get a new telephone. But, grins Mayor Hawrelak, this...
...told things in confidence, and if a reporter belongs to a group and learns things in confidence, he can't do a good job as a reporter." Editor Fred W. Stein of the Binghamton (N.Y.) Press extends the ban to employees beyond the newsroom: "A newspaper can be thrust into an embarrassing situation on a controversial issue by actions of one of its advertising men as well as by its staff writers or editors...
...yesterday thrust a monumental task on the shoulders of three local academicians during a telecast called "Destiny Makers." Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, Donald Bigelow, professor of history at Brandeis, and John H. Laverly, professor of philosophy at B.U., undertook to determine the names of the five most influential Americans of the first half of the 20th century...
...remarkable drama of the real-life achievement of a remarkable woman. When she was only 21, Anne Sullivan of Boston went to Tuscumbia, Ala. to be coach and tutor to seven-year-old Helen Keller, who was both blind and deaf. Annie's first act was to thrust a doll into the hands of her pupil. "When I had played with it a little while," recalled Helen Keller years later, "Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into my hand the word 'd-o-l-l.' I was at once interested in this finger play ... I did not know...
Although unintelligible to most, these mystic calligraphs seem to bring the flavor of the fabled East to prosaic Harvard Yard. The dragon's crouched readiness, with his thick neck thrust defiantly forward, is an impressive sight. Ivy in relief climbs the marble's side, reaching for the top, fourteen feet away. And on the rear, in letters worn by the hand of time, appear these words, "Don was here...