Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Next weekend, the League will send all its teams into action, with Brown opposing Yale at New Haven, Columbia playing host to Princeton, Harvard opening against Cornell in the Stadium, and Dartmouth playing at Penn...
...Alcoholic Beverage Control cracked down sharply on local bars and beer halls over the weekend, and returning students generally found that no I.D. meant no service...
Despite all this, the Vassar girl will study hard--(according to the booklet), and she thus needs something to "clear the cobwebs out of her brains." The solution, of course, is WAA (Weekend Activities Association). This tasteless group (it plans freshman dances with Yale, Princeton, and Williams) adds "the fun of new faces and new places" to the overworked child's "week-end curriculum...
...meeting began at 8:50 a.m. on a grey, sticky morning last weekend, after a marine helicopter put Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus down on the lawn of Dwight Eisenhower's vacation headquarters at Newport, R.I. First the President and the governor talked alone for 20 minutes behind the drawn blinds of a tiny office. Then they moved to an adjoining room for a two-hour conference with Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., White House Staff Chief Sherman Adams, and Arkansas' Democratic Representative Brooks Hays, who had helped arrange the meeting (see below...
...placed by BBC TV's topical show Tonight, whose spokesman concluded: "Americans have a commendable liking for the British, or you are more reticent than we British, despite a widespread belief to the contrary." The second ad brought 250 friendly replies to the American Weekend, a weekly published in Frankfurt...