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Radcliffe's relative poverty resulted in overcrowding. What are now single rooms were "economy doubles;" in 12 Walker Street, two women shared the bedroom of a two-room apartment, while a third lived in the dining alcove. At the obligatory sit-down dinners, Radcliffe students took turns clearing, washing dishes, and waiting on tables...
...like any other college student he has his dreams. His goal in life is to make a lot of money so that neither he nor his kids have to live the way he did when he was young. "I remember living, until I was four or five, in a two-room house. My Dad's a bricklayer and he built the house we live in now--he and my grandfather. Building that house was a step up--but he had to work so hard. Nobody should have to work that hard. Money, Ed adds, can buy most anything and assures...
Some students are annoyed by lack of furniture or by trouble receiving mail, but the main measure of students' contentedness, or lack thereof, is the size of each student's room. Almost all are in singles, some of which are two-room suites. The only students who seem really unhappy with the accommodations are students like Karen Kaufman, whose room barely has space for a bed, a desk, and a closet...
Diane Jacobson has a two-room single and said last week she is quite happy. As she saw it, the only problem with the accommodations was that "there are six showers to 80 girls on the floor...
Squirreled away in a two-room Munich apartment, Kaplan's cache has piqued the curiosity of Western intelligence officers and historians. Kaplan claims to have retrieved from Czechoslovakia 14,000 pages of personal notes, photocopies and microfilms of documents, many of them sensitive and some, he says, highly explosive...