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...tell you no truths." But he is as dogged about disaster as he was about triumph. When at last the self-blinded Oedipus writhes and moans, Teiresias plumbs his insatiable pride: "He wanted to be the happiest of men, now he wants to be the unhappiest...
...major U.S. movie company reached a climax last week. At a special stockholders' meeting, the management of Hollywood's infirm old lion, Loew's Inc., owners of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, outvoted the forces of Millionaire Canadian Contractor Joseph Tomlinson, Loew's biggest (5%) and unhappiest stockholder. By 3,449,446 ballots to 519,435, shareholders gave President Joseph R. Vogel a solid grip on his board of directors by increasing its membership from 13 to 19. Then they voted in nine management nominees to fill ten empty seats (including four recent resignations). The tenth seat...
...poultry pens; instead they strolled about the streets, rested in bed or chattered happily away over cups of green tea at Mrs. Oka's house. Iwano's 500 men bustled about cooking lunch, washing dishes, and bending wearily over the rice fields. The mothers-in-law, unhappiest of all, sat back grimly, arms folded, refused either to work or consort with the archtraitor Oka, who had incited such rebellion...
...today 65% do. Stout upped faculty salaries 68%, started a college of education, a junior college in Las Vegas, a graduate school, a school of nursing and a college of business administration. But in spite of all these accomplishments, the university is still living through some of the unhappiest years of its life...
Twenty-two Dunster Street certainly qualifies as one of the unhappiest places around the Square these days. On the second floor of the building sit the University police, and trudging up the stairs every minute or so comes a persecuted-looking undergraduate clutching a little orange card. The students' attitudes vary from despair to defiance; the attitude of Captain Toohy and his staff is always one of helpless sympathy. It just seems that there are more cars at the College this year than there are legal places to park them...