Word: transfers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Belgium's royal question became last week a question of the royal word. Exiled King Leopold had agreed, if he were allowed to return to Brussels, to transfer the throne temporarily to his son Prince Baudouin. This was acceptable to anti-Leopoldist Socialists and Liberals, if Leopold would guarantee not to interfere with Baudouin's regency. Some suggested that the monarch might stay in the Belgian countryside and devote himself to golf; others proposed the Congo. Then from Switzerland Leopold himself cut in huffily: "It is not necessary that I be asked for guarantees, which can add nothing...
Treasurer of the U.S. Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark confessed that life in Washington had played hob with her private budget: "It's just that no matter what I allocate for my personal expenditures, I always seem to have to transfer funds from my personal business account to keep from going into...
Steadiness keeps Doug "Hog" Wilde playing a top position. A transfer student from Holy Cross, Wilde's middle-70 scores have made him a consistent winner this year. Sam Seager, now playing his third year of varsity golf, is less steady, but practically unbeatable when really on his game. Seager has been known to blow four or five holes to an opponent before clipping in with a one-up victory. In the Intercollegiates two years ago, Seager holed a putt in near-darkness to give Harvard a 5 to 4 upset over Princeton...
Students may transfer between rooms only under two conditions. They must have the written consent of all the students involved, and they must all have the permission of the dormitory which originally assigned the rooms...
Perhaps Congress will eventually take this potentially valuable work away from the Engineers and transfer it to a unified control board that can give the country its money's worth. That would be the one sure way to bring down the price of pork...