Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...afternoon Congressional from Washington bumped to a halt in a gloomy cavern beneath Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station one evening last week. Amid the crowd that surged out onto the platform, indistinguishable from his fellow passengers except for an extra bit of height (6 ft. 1 in.) and an extra gleam in his eye, walked a middle-aged man with a battered suitcase in his hand and his coat collar turned up against the wintry drafts. As he made his way through the station to the snow-blanketed street to hail himself a taxi, nobody recognized...
...doff theirs in sympathy. Showman McGuire has also outraged basketball purists by offering to buy every spectator an ice-cream bar if Abbey lost-it did, but the ice cream was donated free by a manufacturer-and by insisting that there are "no secrets to basketball any more except recruiting." Says he: "Give me a seven-footer and I'm smarter than any coach in the business...
When the Russians produce something for foreign consumption, the standards are generally high. Lileya's photography is no exception, except for a few of those disconcerting moments when film splices cause things that have been a dusky yellow to become suddenly spotless white. Now and then it is overdone, as in the opening time-sequence shot of a flower blossoming (time sequences were invented by Walt Disnovsky in the early 1900's), but the general effect is moving...
...departments of the University will close at noon on Friday and re-open at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 27. Otherwise, all departments except the libraries and the dining halls will operate on regular schedules during the Christmas recess. All Freshman dorms and all Houses will be open, and mail and parcel post delivery will continue as usual...
...dining halls except Adams House will close after dinner today. Students remaining in Cambridge may sign on at Adams House dining room for regular board during vacation...