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Before undertaking so revolutionary a step as removing the fountain, Mahoney polled his best customers to ascertain their reaction to such an apparent turning back of the clock. Overwhelming approval greeted his queries, as 97.3 percent of the clientele asserted that they would still continue patronage even if the fountain were removed...
Further backing for last night's AVC canvassing, in which the Liberal Union assisted, came from two other Greater Boston schools. A poll at Boston University revealed that 68 percent of the veterans there either would have to leave under the present subsistence rates or are doubtful about remaining, while a similar survey at Northeastern showed living costs running about $30 above the government payments...
Although only three percent of the member locals have thus far gone on record against the "no strike" pledge, consideration of the ruling is expected to be taken up in a national convention this summer...
...haleyon days of the 1930s, when the Bureau was first conceived, tutoring schools of the square served some 60 percent of the student body, enabling many of their clients to graduate after having attended only a small fraction of their classes and having completed only a rigidly digested portion of their work...
...wrathful customers whom Ed Carr at Briggs and Briggs parodied recently as complaining about "the bourgeois practice of pressing a thousand copies of a hundred items instead of a hundred copies of a thousand items." Despite the irate customers and the indifferent record companies, though, sales are up 200 percent over pre-war figures in classical departments. Only time will tell whether the rise is the result of a permanent change in taste, or--like most of the other current sales figures in Cambridge--a mere product of floating GI funds...