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Given normal campus weirdness levels, for an arcane religious group the Harvard-Radcliffe Divine Light Club seems pretty straight-laced. Their hair is shorter than average, their clothes neater, and they seem more certain of their directions--all according to Maharaj Ji's prescriptions...
Every year, 100 million worn rubber tires and 26 billion nonreturnable glass bottles are discarded in the U.S. Disposing of them is a formidable problem, usually resolved by burning evil-smelling mountains of tires and burying tons of splintered glass. But there soon may be a neater and more practical solution: using the unsightly, troublesome waste products as construction materials in the 20,000 miles of highways that are built annually...
Died. Varian M. Fry, 59, perpetrator of one of World War IPs neater coups, who in 1940 went to Vichy France, as head of a privately sponsored Emergency Relief Committee ostensibly organized to provide money for blacklisted intellectuals, in reality operated for 24 months as an underground railroad, spiriting some 1,500 people out of the country (among them: Painter Marc Chagall, Physicist Otto Meyerhoff) until authorities at last expelled Fry; of a heart attack; in Easton, Conn...
Pearson's problem is that the telephone company's image is well-nigh perfect. Its charges are known to be just, equitable and, in any case, virtually incontestable; its poles are tall as trees and much neater; its only enemies are unenlightened woodpeckers, public service commissions, and the parents of teenagers. How satirize such perfection? Pearson does his best by suggesting that company executives are only human when trapped behind filing cabinets with neurotic secretaries, but this is squalid stuff. (How little adultery there was in Shakespeare...
...funeral, McLevy lay in a sharply pressed suit, his hair newly trimmed. "He does look much neater dead than alive.'' said one mourner with deep affection. "Jasper never cared much about how he looked-only what he stood for." McLevy would have agreed...