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...passed a motion early last month prohibiting House transfers among rising sophomores until the end of first semester next year. Jeffrey K. Griffiths '77, CHUL representative from North House and a sponsor of the "transfer freeze" motion, said yesterday that he thought the freeze only applied to transfers into vacant rooms and not to "one-to-one swaps." Marshall said no transfers of any kind will be allowed...
Griffiths added he will seek a clarification from CHUL on Wednesday. "Although I still oppose transfers to fill vacant space, I would favor one-to-one transfers since such switches make people happier without changing the composition of the House," he said...
...member of the family that owns Kohler Co., one of the nation's largest manufacturers of plumbing equipment, Kohler was a solid backer of the Eisenhower Administration. His political career ended when he lost to liberal Democrat William Proxmire in the 1957 race for the Senate seat left vacant by the sudden death of Joseph R. McCarthy...
...villagers instead of actors in La Terra Trema (1947), the drama of a poor fisherman's family. In Rocco and His Brothers (1960), he described the brutalizing of a farm family moving north to Milan. Visconti's later works tended toward operatic melodrama (The Damned) or slick, vacant, surface beauty (Death in Venice). Conversation Piece, badly received at the New York Film Festival last fall, told the seemingly autobiographical tale of an elderly man of taste and learning trying to embrace the wasted lives of the barbaric sybarites around...
...contrast, Premier Aleksei Kosygin, 71, seems to have slipped, although he too kept his Politburo seat. His address on the economy ran only two hours, and, as he spoke, Brezhnev's chair on the dais was conspicuously-and un-precedentedly-vacant. That could indicate that Brezhnev intended to rebuff Kosygin, or that he was bored with the proceedings, since he and the rest of the Politburo had already read and approved the Premier's remarks. What may be more revealing than Brezhnev's absence, suggested U.S. analysts, is that Kosygin limited himself to economic matters. Noted...