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...December of 1957, when the Council unanimously approved of applying for Federal renewal money, it created the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority (CRA). The CRA was to plan and administer redevelopment in Cambridge. Until last Thursday, when the Federal Housing and Homes Agency closed the CRA's books, the Authority consisted of a committee of five Cambridge businessmen and lawyers, serving without pay, and a paid staff of five architects and planners...
...just loves to burrow through a dictionary, So You're Coming to Vassar offers "Definitions" of the "Senate" (The joint student-faculty executive body of CGA"), the "Legislative Assembly" ("'The eyes and ears' of the students"), and a "Big Five" of which FDR himself would be proud (AA, CRA, WAA, Phil, and Polit). There are also the North Winds and Do-Ray-Mis ("Vassar's only 'house' groups that. . . perform in anything from pajamas to evening gowns...
...Japanese destroyers, the deep submersion, and the suspense at 300 feet below while depth charges searched for the sub, shaking her like a light bulb on a cord. The first time it happened to Trigger, Tokyo Rose claimed her sunk, then played a recording of Rocked in the Cra dle of the Deep. It was a characteristic Japanese extravagance: they claimed 468 subs in the course of the war. U.S. sub losses in the Pacific from all causes were 52 ships...
...gone on from the day when the English drew their long bows and upset the flower of French chivalry at Creey and Agincourt to the cra when American fight fans finally decided that Jack Dempsey was an underdog and deserved cheers instead of boos. The hearts of millions of women will beat a little faster today every time some back named Seymour or Harrison or Frank or Booth or whatever this generation's names are gain a yard or two. And Peabody and Pfister and MacKinney and Lee will be playing the roles of the villainous favorites, but they will...
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON;--The answer to the prayer of every poor sinner who ever said. "Oh, let's get the hell out of this mess!" is a south sea island. Be it the Napoleonic cra when the book "Swiss Family Robinson" was written or the Hitlerian cra when Hollywood put it on celluloid, the story still holds good. True, it creaks in sports. The more lurid parts of Wyss's work had to be soft-pedaled and even then the final script was bogged down with verbiage as thick as the tropical vegetation. But such vivid scenes as the hurricane...