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Early in the summer, it was uncertain whether Dean von Stade would need the entry for freshman housing, but Wigglesworth J has now been definitely assigned to Dudley, and its residents are regular members of the "commuter" House. Although some local students have already expressed interest in the vacant spaces, Leighton hopes that others will apply. In addition, any upperclassman now in a residential House who wishes to apply for the program on the basis of serious financial need, may file a petition with the Administrative Board...
...Roman senators grow tired of old Romulus' tricks, and of his sanctimoniousness; they surround him in a fog and hack him to pieces (Duggan discards the legend that Romulus ascended to heaven in a cloud). The novel ends with the gentle Sabine Numa Pompilius taking over the vacant throne of the young city in 715 B.C. Prolific Author Duggan has a legion of books and some 1,200 years of Roman history still awaiting...
...punishments for minor infractions. Nunlist's strictness nearly cost him his life last April, when a discharged guardsman shot him in the neck and shoulder. Before he collapsed, the bleeding colonel disarmed his attacker, who was turned over to the Italian police (the Vatican City jail has been vacant for 20 years, is now used for storage). "It was a brief but violent struggle," said Nunlist, and clamped down all the harder...
...Premier Menderes used tear gas to disperse the crowds that gathered to hear Inonu, and stood by while bands of toughs pelted the 75-year-old national hero with stones (TIME, May 11). Inonu's tour was part of a vigorous campaign by the Republicans for 21 vacant seats in the National Assembly scheduled to be filled in byelections this fall. Even if the Republicans won all 21 seats, they would not dent the Democrats' gerrymandered Assembly majority (410 to 170), but a good Republican showing might be an omen for 1961 general elections. Apparently Menderes thought...
Hearing insistent rumors that the government will hold elections this fall to fill 21 vacant seats in the Grand National Assembly, Inonu decided to tour...