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...remains that a college must make sure its examinations are valid, its libraries full, and its social regulations obeyed. The findings of Radcliffe's investigating committee have prompted pessimists to say that human nature being what it is, an honor system just won't work. And these pessimists always trot out a long list of reasons why such a system, a conspicuous success at Princeton, would never work out at Harvard. The community is too large and impersonal, they say. Members of one group don't care what members of other groups think of them, and have even less concern...
...instructress, one Ellen Keene, told him he showed real promise, and John vowed to win his Arthur Murray bronze medal. All he had to do, after all, was learn the 60 different steps used in the fox trot, swing, tango, waltz, samba, rumba and mambo. After his hundredth hour on the floor, John decided to buy four Arthur Murray life memberships - they only cost $7,650 apiece, and together they guaranteed him 4,000 hours of instruction and after that, eight hours of dancing a month for life. "It's like a kind of insurance," he explained. "Dancing...
Life Members. As times have changed, so has the dance and the business of teaching it. The fox trot, which first came into vogue about 40 years ago, is still the most popular, but the rumba is close behind. In Murray's studios, men used to outnumber women by 6 to 4; now the gap has narrowed. The 40-and-up age group used to be Murray's best customers; but since World War II, largely as a result of his accreditation under the G.I. Bill's education benefits, Murray has been getting a younger...
...Roosevelt Raceway, N.Y., the Arden Homestead Stable's Florican, a six-year-old trotter with nothing to show for eight previous starts this year, went as a 15-to-1 shot into the invitational $25,000 American Trotting Championship. When the mile-and-a-quarter trot was over, Florican had not only picked up a $12,500 winner's purse but had also smashed the world mark for the distance by more than four seconds with a time...
Nearing the end of a three-month globe-trot, Eleanor Roosevelt, 68, spent a weekend with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, 61, at his summer retreat on the Adriatic, later told how fine it was that Yugoslavia had "so young-feeling a man" as its leader. "His sort of whimsy and youth is a fortunate thing for the nation...