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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Originally, the Council proposed a lot just past the muddy driveway which cuts across the far end of the Stadium. A poll indicated that approximately half the College's car owners would be in favor of such a lot. On November 7 the Council drew up plans for Soldiers Field parking, setting a three to five dollar monthly charge for the privilege, and submitted the idea to the Corporation. Three weeks later the Corporation approved the plans, and said the lot would be ready by the first of the year-if 250 students signed...
...French past, most of Indo-China had been conquered by the Chinese, who had left their culture indelibly behind.† Through the last half of the 19th. Century, the French converted Indo-China into a tight, profitable colonial monopoly. They explored its fever-laden jungles, lofty ranges, great river valleys. They discovered its antiquities, including the majestic loth Century towers of Angkor Wat in northern Cambodia. They wrote about its mandarins, its Buddhist temples and Confucian family life...
Another disappointment has been Bao Dai's effort to enlist capable ministers and lower-echelon administrators. Partly this is because so many Vietnamese are fence-sitters or fear the terror of Viet Minh agents. Partly it is a consequence of French failure, in the past and at present, to train enough natives to take over the government. Bao Dai seems to be counting on U.S. pressure to loosen up the French in this respect...
Presidential Press Secretary Charles Ross, a past president of the Gridiron Club and now an associate member, rightly guessed that other Gridironers would not take the second Truman refusal lightly. To cool off the hot tempers in advance, Ross put together a Gridiron-style skit and song, entitled "When We Ride, We Always Ride with Harry." Then Ross and the three other Gridironers aboard the presidential train made a record of the skit. On the third stanza of the song ("When I laugh, I always laugh with Harry . . ."), Harry Truman himself added his bathtub baritone. He also sent his greetings...
...tomb, emerged with archaeological specimens and an unwavering devotion to the subject. (He also collects other items, from old Dutch masters to ship models.) Though he has 100,000 subscribers, Ingram admits he edits the Illustrated London News to please an audience of one. Says he, echoing good editors past & present: "Things that interest me interest our readers...