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...code, "shall not represent that cigarette smoking is essential to social prominence, distinction, success or sexual attraction." By that yardstick, the ads will no longer show such athletes as Arnold Palmer, who has been nonchalantly flipping his filter-tip on the grass before sinking a 60-footer, may also abandon such regulars as the menthol sweethearts strolling hand in cigaretted hand, the husky and tattooed Marlboro men, and the Chesterfield panels of distinguished smokers...
Although complete statistics are not yet available, it appears clear that no movement developed among this year's seniors to abandon thesis writing for cum laude in general studies degrees. The fears expressed two years ago, when CLGS rules were liberalized, once again have been proven unfounded...
Bishop Robinson, speaking to a large audience in Sanders Theatre, and later to a small reception, stated that ours is "a genuinely and unashamedly secular world." In such an age, he asked, if a man is to become a Christian, "has he got to abandon the modern world for the equivalent of the medieval?" Christianity, he charged, has become too closely attached to particular descriptions of God which were helpful in the past but which seem incredible to many people today...
...must be the sign of a dawning epoch when Cambridge choruses abandon the booming solemnity of Latin and devote half a concert to music by twentieth century Americans, with daring words in the vernacular. Now it is always a riot when English is substituted for Latin in Cambridge, and Friday's Glee Club-Choral Society concert proved to be no exception. The concert put the glee back in the Glee Club and brought jolly laughter from the listeners...
This did not seem to matter so much until 1953, when the Pennsylvania Railroad decided to abandon its freight and commuter ferry across the bay as too expensive and too slow. The whole Delmarva Peninsula took fright. So did the Virginia legislature, which appointed a committee to study the problem. Norfolk, which was in the midst of an effort to transform itself into something better than a sleazy shore-leave resort for 70,000 sailors, gave the project enthusiastic support. It took time. But by 1960, the bridge commission, headed by Eastern Shore Businessman Lucius Kellam, had floated...