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...State Department was still clearing homosexuals out of its woodwork. In 1950, said Deputy Under Secretary Carlisle Humelsine before the House Appropriations Committee, 54 cases were discovered within the department. Four more cases have been uncovered so far this year, and fifteen are still under study. Total number of homosexuals dismissed as bad security risks since 1947: 146 men and two women...
After a year of chasing gamblers, chiselers, unusually wealthy police officers and other curious creatures out of the worm; eaten woodwork of the nation's largest city, a New York City grand jury last week sent out a call for reinforcements. The jurors proposed a crime commission of distinguished citizens, to be financed by public contributions. Its job: to keep an eye on officials charged with preventing crime, holler long & loud if they fall down...
...time students start drifting back to Cambridge, they will see only the tall end of the annual summer painting and digging campaign. The University Buildings and Grounds department have had Adams covered with scaffolding to repaint woodwork, and the City has been ripping up sidewalks along Massachusetts Avenue to lay pipes...
...time students start drifting back to Cambridge, they will see only the tall end of the annual summer painting and digging campaign. The University Buildings and Grounds department have had Adams covered with scaffolding to repaint woodwork, and the City has been ripping up sidewalks along Massachusetts Avenue to lay pipes...
Fifty years age the woodwork of the old Mass Hall, built in 1720, and therefore oldest building in the school, was termiter ridden, the structural beams were weak and the roof was collapsing. The building was in such sorry condition that the Board of Directors gave up hope of salvaging it. The new Mass Hall was modeled after the old one-the reproduction was so faithful that even the original sag of the roof was duplicated-and is visible today...