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After three shows of his scheduled four-week, $44,000 nightclub engagement at Las Vegas plush Dunes Hotel, TV Comedian Wally (Mr. Peepers) Cox was fired on grounds that he had promised to supply an entirely new act but had come to Las Vegas with no preparation and with material five or six years old. The act had so much "nothing," according to Co-Owner Al Gottesman, that "people walked out in the middle of it." When Cox turned up for a fourth show despite his dismissal, the management refused to let him go on, offered...
While volunteers need no preparation for ward work either at Boston Psycopathic or Metropolitan State, case work is a different matter. The 19 volunteers, led by Maeda Jurkowitz '56 and Michael Dohan '58, first participated in a four-week training program conducted by professional social workers, and then went to work helping patients who were able to leave the hispital adjust to community life again...
...Cuban newspaper reported it last week. Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon "knocked a home run" right after he landed in Havana, the first stop on a four-week good-will tour of the Caribbean and Central America. Instead of sticking to the usual bland official generalities, Nixon wowed his Cuban audience at Havana's military airport by confiding that he greatly admired the prowess of three eminent Cuban athletes: Washington Senators Pitcher Conrado Marrero, Chicago White Sox Outfielder Orestes Minoso and ex-Welterweight Champion Kid Gavilan...
Calypso singers chanted it. and pounded on their drums: little children shrilled it, and waved their tiny Union Jacks. As she began a four-week cruise through the British West Indies last week, 24-year-old Princess Margaret knew, from the cheering crowds that lined the hot, sunny streets in Trinidad, that the welcome came from the heart...
...thus casing the load on present staffs. Such a naive answer is impractical, however, both because of the prohibitive cost and the shortage of qualified people. An alternative would be to spread out the applications, so present staffs could read them throughout the year, rather than in a mad four-week race. Technically, at least, this would be immediately possible. The CEEB approved a September test series at its recent meeting; other exams could also be added making it possible for college applicants to take the Boards at almost any time of the year. It is also possible, with...