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Currently the Student Employment Office places up to 1,500 students a year in steady term-time jobs, and another 300 to 400 in casual jobs around the Boston area. These casual jobs include anything from baby-sitting and leaf-raking to modeling for an art association or bartending at a private party. For the latter type of job, incidentally, the Office has at hand an experienced group of professional student-bartenders...
Twenty minutes later they found him, 75 yards up the road. He had been killed by a Communist land mine.* In Hanoi, while a military honor guard stood by his casket, the French northern-front commander, General René Cogny, awarded a posthumous Croix de Guerre with palm leaf to Robert Capa, 40, the first U.S. correspondent to be killed in the Indo-China war. Said Cogny: "He fell like a soldier. He deserves a soldier's honors...
Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover, and a skit spoofing Gilbert & Sullivan (and possibly E. Power Biggs) entitled The Organist Who Never, Never Lost a Chord...
Basis of the program is a standing-operating-procedure manual, in loose-leaf so that it can be kept up to date with the growing number of poisons used in the modern home. This is no mean trick because of the multiplicity of trade names. Poisonous components are listed with antidotes and other treatments. Parents who telephone a hospital emergency room crying that a child has swallowed poison are told to make the youngster vomit if possible (by tickling the throat with a spoon handle). Then they should take the child and a sample of the poison (the vomitus will...
...major finished his report and snapped: "Enjoy it." But the people refused to enjoy it. They set up a new chant: "We want the revolution!" Leaf lets flooded the streets. Transport workers went on strike. Unionized cabs raced the streets, trailing slogans that read: "We Do Not Want Corrupt Politicians Again...