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...appear to the untrained eye irrelevant. Yet a careful reading of the catalogue brings scholastic joy to a small, notoriously uncommunicative group of undergraduates who have effected a virtual monopoly over the University's more exotic, which is to say more enjoyable, selections. Opposing monopoly, we bring this list forthwith to the learning public...
...this magnificent edifice." The point at which he lost touch, however, was the demand that birth-control pills be handed out at the university's medical dispensary. That sort of request, said Muggeridge, "raised in me not so much disapproval as contempt," and he resigned his post forthwith. "How sad, how macabre and funny it is," said Muggeridge, "that all they put forward should be a demand for pot and pills, the resort of any old slobbering debauchee anywhere...
First, Premier George Papadopoulos expansively told newsmen that all prisoners who had been jailed for political reasons since the military seized power eight months ago would be freed. Indeed, some 100 prisoners were forthwith released, including the most celebrated one of all, Andreas Papandreou, 48, the son of the former Premier. Andreas, who had been scheduled to stand trial for conspiracy to commit treason, got out of jail in time to join his American wife and four children at their home in an Athens suburb for Christmas. The fifteen officers convicted in the 1965 Aspida conspiracy, which allegedly sought...
...them widely, and has run up vast bills for photography and publicity. When newspapers revealed last week that the commission had picked up the $1,628 tab for Kirk's honeymoon flight to Germany this fall with his wife, the irrepressible Governor denied nothing and refunded the money forthwith. "Very good reporting," he said. "Suppose a political enemy instead of the press had found it? That would have been terrible...
...permit to levitate the Pentagon 300 feet off the ground, explaining that by chanting ancient Aramaic exorcism rites while standing in a circle around the building, they could get it to rise into the air, turn orange and vibrate until all evil emissions had fled. The war would end forthwith. The administrator graciously gave his permission for them to raise the building a maximum of 10 feet, and dismissed the charges against the hippies...