Word: towers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the paint was dry on the $3,000, 000 temporary new U.N. building, facing the Eiffel Tower across the Seine, the buzz of diplomacy began. The Egyptians wooed their fellow Arabs; the Russians tended their dovecotes secretly, but undoubtedly had some new mutation of peace dove to exhibit. Acheson and Eden ate dinner together, and had private talks with France's Robert Schuman. Schuman thereupon announced that the West had prepared a U.N. peace program that would be "a world sensation...
Most ivory-tower plastic surgeons are concerned with correcting some of mankind's more serious deformities-not with making "cosmetic" repairs such as nose bobbing or face lifting. This attitude is too narrow and too stuffy, according to Dr. Adolph Abraham Apton of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital: anything that makes a person feel uncomfortably conspicuous leads to mental upsets and ought to be corrected if possible. Dr. Apton's motto: "Plastic surgery is a surgical method of psychotherapy...
...hard between various bunches of freshmen to see who can carry off the prize first. The University doesn't mind the theft once a year, although the proctors and campus cops keep a sharp eye out and apprehend anyone they can who acts even faintly suspicious near the tower. To elude the watchful constabulary and get the clapper is every Tiger cub's dream...
...early for an enterprising group of freshmen who made the dangerous ascent to the belfry only to find it gone. Not really knowing what the quarry looked like, they took the most mobile 'thing left--the mechanism of the clock. Without clapper, works or hands the Nassau Hall tower could neither strike the hour nor even point the time. This was not the first time however, that something other than the clapper had been tampered with. Back in the nineties freshmen upturned the bell, poured boiling water in it, and let it freeze, cracking the bell, and thus stopping...
...four years. Following in his literary pen splatterings have been Booth Tarkington '93, creator of Penrod and author of "Seventeen," an adaptation of which is now on Broadway, Henry van Dyke '73, Eugene O'Neill '10, father of modern American drama, James Ramsey Ullman '29, author of "The White Tower," and F. Scott Fitzgerald...