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Flunkees & Indians. The answer is a pudgy, cyclonic Presbyterian minister named Millard Roberts, 41, who had made an impressive record as fund raiser for Manhattan's Brick Presbyterian Church. Swirling in as president in 1955, he treated Parsons like a sick factory. To beef up sales, Roberts fanned fast-talking admissions men throughout the Midwest and the East. He freely discounted freshman fees and even more freely solicited flunkees from other colleges. He welcomed high school graduates in the bottom half of their classes, and took some who stood dead last. Almost anyone with...
...Eloi-blond youths and maidens who retain little of 20th century cultures except the art of permanent waving and a grim phrase that means peace: "All clear." To his horror, the Time Traveler learns of the Morlocks, a tribe of cavern-dwelling green mutants who breed the Eloi as beef cattle. (Why science fiction's monsters never breed cattle as cattle is perplexing, but perhaps they dislike the taste.) Actor Taylor, of course, does mighty battle to save the Eloi, particularly a charming little cutlet named Weena (Yvette Mimieux), then chugs off to 1900 in time for dinner. Later...
...collection of condensed novels, such as those issued by Reader's Digest, belonging in this class for the same reason that a beef bouillon cube...
Students of this period lived luxuriously and inexpensively. Breakfast, served in Memorial Hall by white-clad waiters, featured two boil- ed eggs for eight cents or two doughnuts for three cents; a roast beef dinner sold for twelve cents, quality not specified. Each six-week course cost $20, a price fixed in the late 1880's and not changed until...
...scouse-beef stew without the beef...