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...Hi, Tom," Holmberg says. "The kids in Canaday are complaining about how it's too hot in there." Like most administrative problems, this one involves money. Canaday Hall is the only air-conditioned dorm in the Yard, but the air-conditioning is turned off because the students living there wouldn't pay extra for it. But since the dorm is air-conditioned it has few windows and, in short, the students have changed their minds. The problem is that it costs money, money the students didn't pay, to turn the air-conditioning...
...world? Despite the doctrine of "manifest destiny" and certain episodes in Mexico and the Philippines, until World War I Americans widely agreed with the view that their country should lead by good example-or as Hayne Davis, a writer on international affairs, put it in the Independent hi 1903, "simply to let her light so shine, by wise conduct of her own home affairs, that other nations may see her good works and adopt the political principle which has been her source of power." This passive, if naively arrogant belief was transformed into a crusading spirit by Woodrow Wilson...
...mass party, as distinguished from some Communist parties based on cadres or militants. We have a membership of nearly 1.7 million. More than half are workers from industry and agriculture, but we also have white-collar members, artisans, intellectuals, doctors, teachers, working women and housewives-the working people hi the broadest sense...
...posts in the South that journalists in North Viet Nam's capital complain that many of their best sources are now in Saigon. Despite the influx of cadres from the North, Saigon's new rulers have problems running the city. Banks remain closed, the telephone system is hi chaos, and some offices remain unstaffed...
...nondescript three-story building minus any lush lobby or manicured grounds. But what it lacks in gilding, it more than makes up for in concern for its patients. Alliance's 100 occupants are in the care of seven nurses and 25 nurse's aides, who work hi three shifts so that the home will be staffed round the clock. Most of Alliance's patients are not only healthy but happy. Elvira Axeen, 82, still goes out every Wednesday to make coffee for her Bible group. "I'm going to be busy as long...