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President Pusey announced Horton's appointment to the post, vacant for the past two years, in a special release last night. George H. Williams, associate professor of History, has served as Acting Dean of the school during an unusually long vacancy, since the retirement in January, 1953 of the late Dean Willard L. Sperry. Horton's name had first been mentioned for the position as early as the fall...
...Flame of the Inn is dim tonight- Too many vacant chairs- The sun has lost too much of its light- Too many songs have taken flight- Too many ghosts on the stairs- Charon-here's to you-as man against man- I wish I could pick...
...France does not approve the accords, said Pinay, it will be dangerously isolated. To prove his point he produced a letter from Sir Winston Churchill, saying that if France left her place vacant at international councils, "sooner or later another nation [meaning West Germany] would take her chair." Pinay's case was further bolstered by a message from President Eisenhower, giving assurance that U.S. forces would stay in Europe "while a threat to that area exists." This important U.S. guarantee had been given during the EDC struggle, but it had lapsed with the death...
...pleasures that a U.S. tourist enjoys only in his own country is the ever-increasing number of modern, luxurious motels. In 1951, the American Automobile Association remarked that anyone who has a "pile of bricks and a vacant lot" puts up a motel. Today, competition for the tourist dollar is even more acute, the product more enticing. How tempting and comfortable some of these motels can be is shown in our four-page color spread; what the industry is like is told in The Boom That Travelers Built, in BUSINESS...
Almost four months after his nomination to the Supreme Court, John Marshall Harlan is still spending most of his afternoons before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, instead of filling the vacant ninth place in the Court building. He has been detained, unfortunately, by questioning that daily grows more absurd and insidious...