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Until now, the University held House residents responsible for their vacant room rents "unless suitable replacements could be found." Since Claverly men were not considered suitable February replacements, only Commuters and returning Harvard men (the College admits no new students in February) could fill such vacancies...
...finally decided, subject to demands for a recount. In Colorado, Democrat Wayne N. Aspinwall was re-elected over Republican State Senator Howard Shults, 39,676 votes to 39,647-a majority of exactly 29. Current breakdown of the new House: Republicans, 221; Democrats, 212; Independent, 1; one seat vacant (since the death, two days after Election Day, of Illinois' Democrat Adolph J. Sabath-TIME...
...Paris, the French Academy elected Marshal Alphonse Juin, 63-year-old commander of NATO's Central European land forces, to take the seat left vacant by the death of Author Jean Tharaud...
Empty Stores. In an upper-level Cleveland suburb, 28 new houses completed last spring still stood vacant at $38,000, although the builder had sold others by trimming prices. In Detroit, housing permits this year were 40% fewer than last year, and Portland, Ore. Realtor Charles Paine reported that his home market was "just marking time." Sacramento, Calif, and southeastern Florida, where buyers were snapping up medium-priced homes as fast as they were built, were exceptions...
...secondary business districts, empty stores were no longer rarities. Some of them had been vacant for six months. Where only a year ago businessmen fought for locations, now they were no longer willing to pay the high rents asked. Complained a Minneapolis real-estate salesman: "Shopping centers are running out of our ears...