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...Dudley's University rooms cost less than regular House rooms. Perhaps, if you try hard enough, you can get a room in the "Dudley entries of Wigg" and eat where you want, free of the University board charges. Or, with less trouble, you can move into one of the Cooperative Houses, located up Mass. Ave, near Radcliffe. There you can definitely halve your room and board costs, and, reportedly, enjoy innumerable sumptuous home-cooked meals made by myraids of motherly Cliffies. For the particularly industrious, there are room-for-service arrangements and even positions as apartment house janitors. And, just...
...catch-all of married students, commuters living at home or using a bed in Wigg during the week, the Co-op people, and others who have returned from a year off to an apartment, Dudley offers as interesting a conglomeration of warm bodies as you will find in the College...
...Profumo showed himself both arrogant and stupid in thinking that he could suppress the truth indefinitely by libel suits. (In fact, he sued Paris-Match for libel and collected out of court from Italy's Tempo Illustrato).) Besides, Ward began to talk, and to Labor M.P. George Wigg he unfolded a tale, as Wilson described it in the Commons, that "took the lid off a corner of the London underworld-vice and dope, marijuana, blackmail and counter-blackmail, violence, petty crime." Added Wilson gratuitously: "If Ward's statement had been published as a fiction paperback in America...
Wilson sent an account of the Ward-Wigg conversation to Macmillan, who turned it over to the "appropriate authorities," who found nothing disturbing in it. Prodded further, Macmillan wrote Wilson: "There seems to be nothing in the papers you sent which requires me to take any action...
...seems logical that any new living space opened up would attract students who wish to room with new friends outside their present House. Normally, inter-House shifting is taboo, and Wigg and Claverly offer but a minimum of relief (and Wigg will be all-freshman next year anyway). Moving to any new House also offers a tactful excuse for leaving present roommates and escaping tensions. "There's always a push and a pull in these moves," Riesman hays, "and the roommate situation may well be either...