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Lawrence of Arabia. To the hero-happy public he was a guerrilla genius, the Galahad of World War I. To his military superiors he was a popinjay. To the Arabs he was Sheikh Dinamit, the spirit of the wind who led them to victory over the detested Turk. To Biographer Richard Aldington he was a cad and a bounder-sado-masochistic, hemi-homosexual, selfpublicizing charlatan whose actual role in the Arab revolt was small and whose subsequent career as a technician in the R.A.F. was merely a theatrical gesture of humility. To Winston Churchill he was "one of the greatest...
...like me could have known her, she would have been all right. In death, it has caused women who before resented her frolicsome sexuality to join in the unspoken plea she leaves behind-the simple, noble wish to be taken seriously and soulfully. It had also caused a desperate Turk to slash his wrists after seeing How To Marry a Millionaire, caused lonely men to offer her marriage proposals a dozen times a week for the past ten years, caused doleful girls to attempt the impossible in pathetic imitations of her. Just as her life kept hopeless plans alive...
...Ataturk's goals are impressive even by the standards its name implies. With present enrollment at 460, the university hopes to accommodate 1,000 students by 1965, and eventually grow to 10,000. Says R. A. Souchek. the Nebraska-educated Turk who serves as group secretary: "Ataturk University will be a beacon to these people who have lived too long in the dark ages...
...compete with Greenwich Village's Macdougal St. There is folk singing at Golden Vanity, in Kenmore Square, and at The Loft, on Charles St. Probably some of the others will have entertainers during the summer, but you should check before you go. Some of the others are the Turk's Head, Cafe Yana, The Place, and the Gallery. Charles St. is no North Beach but the prices are reasonable...
John R. Taylor Jr., Freshman Council president, and James D. Turk '65, reported to the administration Friday that 72% of freshmen answering a questionnaire and subscribing to the laundry service were dissatisfied with it. When questioned on April 10, many freshmen had over whelmingly recommended either the complete abolition of the HSA-run laundry system or at least its reestablishment on a door-to-door basis. They also complained slightly about other aspects of the laundry service...