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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rattrap in the Room. "In fact, I have always given, and do now give, a level of personal service far beyond any offered by the Statler organization ... I always furnish the guest a rattrap for his room, free of charge. No charge is made for cheese for same. Of course, if the guest requests Camembert, Gruyère or Roquefort, a nominal charge is made...
...issued the appropriate proclamations. At the suggestion of a National Grange publicity man, the U.S. Department of Agriculture had mailed out information on kits for making homemade U.N. flags to sewing circles from Maine to Yakima, Wash. They were told that U.N. flags should be displayed on a level with-but to the left of-the U.S. flag, and should be about the same size. The League of Women Voters pestered town councils to get the flags flown at city buildings and schools...
...fall of 1949, an exemption quota of 25 percent was established for English A. Previously exemptions in the course had been limited to some three percent from a class who achieved a certain level of proficiency on a test. This year the 25 percent exemption quota was still in operation, and another 200 wriggled away from the freshman composition course by enrolling in General Education A, and experimental course in which the students explore subject matter through short compositions. This course, if it is judged successful, may soon displace English A altogether...
...caught another body blow. The Newsprint Supply Co. Ltd., the nonprofit cooperative through which the publishers allocate their newsprint supplies, announced last week that paper was so short that the wartime rationing system would have to be reimposed. Under it, the use of newsprint will be limited to the level of 1950's first nine months, thus force every paper either to freeze its circulation or to cut its size, already down to six or at most eight pages...
...slate-grey and black-barred peregrine falcon (duck hawk) is one of the speediest and most powerful of all flying organisms. It flies on the level at 60 m.p.h., dives at 180, knocks out its quarry (birds up to the size of duck) with its steely talons, kills only what it will eat. Its attacks are always made from open sky, and what it does not kill with the first attack, it seldom bothers to pursue. The late Gerald H. Thayer once admiringly described the peregrine falcon as a "powerful, wild, majestic, independent bird, living on the choicest of clean...