Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There were some new sights to see around the Square: the Langdell addition had been finished, and the Indoor Athletic Building was well on its way to completion. There was a large open lot across from Gore Hall on which concrete and steel were rising to become House Plan Unit No. 1; on a triangular plot of ground on Memorial Drive a similar scene would soon be transformed into House Plan Unit...
...them at the Coop. Kellogg's All-Bran was prescribed (by the Kellogg Company) as the way to end the "widespread evil" of constipation causing most of the ill health which harms effective studying. The little Psychological Clinic was forced by the needs of House Plan Unit No. 1 to move from 19 Beaver Street to 62 Plympton Street. After 26 years in its new location, the clinic is now being forced by House Plan Unit No. 8 to move again...
...football season over, the House Plan began in earnest. House Plan Unit No. 1 was named Lowell House, after the then President of Harvard; House Plan Unit No. 2 was named Dunster House, after the first President. Coolidge, a mathematician, who bore a rather striking resemblance to President Lowell, would head Lowell House; Greenough, an English professor, would head Dunster. Out of disgust for the group's recent plans, and to avoid any confusing of duties, Coolidge resigned his membership in the Watch and Ward Society the "arbitrators of citizens' morals." The Houses would be Georgian in design, the dining...
Tunisia: Worse. In Tunisia a 350-man French army unit, operating in a border area where Algerian rebels have sought refuge, found itself "surrounded" by Tunisian soldiers, and in the ensuing scuffle killed seven of them. In an angry speech to his people, Tunisia's normally moderate and pro-Western Premier Habib Bourguiba cried: "There must be no more French troop movements. We are not at war with France, but we are at war with the remnants of colonialism in Tunisia. We start the battle of evacuation today." At the end of his speech the crowd took...
...television set. I'm selling sets for less than I think I can replace them for in six days." Throughout the industry, business was picking up. Magnavox, in a strong position because of its policy of sticking to higher-priced table models and consoles, reported its first-quarter unit sales were up and 20% over last year. G.E. had trimmed its line of portables from nine to six, table models from seven to six, and beefed up its higher-priced console models from eight to 13. In the rising optimism Motorola, Admiral and others were boosting their whole price...