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...faculty and the corporation, Furniss' office in the Hall of Graduate Studies was the bright hope for any professor with a new idea, a sympathetic court of appeals for any with a problem. No major change has taken place at Yale without first getting the provost's consent, and probably no university official has been so open to new projects. Once a professor suggested that the university publish an esoteric journal of musicology. "What will the circulation be?" asked Furniss. "Four hundred," replied the professor meekly. "Good," said Furniss, "it's scholarly"-and the journal was approved...
MONOPOLY FIGHT between Greyhound Corp. and Justice Department has been settled. Nation's biggest bus line signed consent decree promising not to exclude other bus operators from Greyhound terminals and to divide up intercity bus territories with other operators, also pledged to buy some of its buses from makers other than General Motors Corp...
...stand raised a constitutional question: Under the U.S. three-branch system of government, can the U.S. Senate impose domestic conditions on its consent to international agreements negotiated by the executive branch...
...avoid the risk of hostile antibodies developing in the recipient's system.) But in the case of the Masden boys, the problem is not only medical but legal. Unlike the earlier cases, the Masdens are minors. Argue the lawyers: not even the boys' mother could give legal consent to "an invasion" of Leonard's person for the sake of Leon...
...comedian, even the TV Pleistocene Age's Milton Berle, has matched Sid Caesar's staying power or his grip on the loyalty of hard-core fans. More than that, by common show-business consent, he is one of the truly great clowns. Apart from sheer technical mastery of pantomime, dialect, timing and the ad lib, Caesar has a creative gift for spoofing the stuffy and the phony and for finding endless fun in universal human foibles and frustrations. His career, which began as a $10-a-week saxophonist on New York's borsch circuit, has made...