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...flees to the harbor that the University has thoughtfully provided for him, the International Students' Center on Garden Street. He may find here other foreign students, and form with them a sympathetic island of unfamiliarity with America and her ways. He will see precious few Americans at the Center, and if he is particularly unlucky may become almost totally isolated from the University community...
Bell it was who pointed out that only the civilised artificiality distinguished him the barbarian. To the Blooms which he lived (and which Lawrence so much destested) thesis was an especially one; certainly it attracted respect than it does now. "," I would guess, is a dead it connotes the precious, the and the dilletantish. But it is with us, perhaps a little...
...week's end the Kennedys deserted Washington and flew out by helicopter for their first visit to Glen Ora, their rented estate in Middleburg. Va. The press was told that there would be no news, no tours of the house, precious few beds in the nearby Red Fox Tavern for stubborn reporters. There were no weekend visitors. One morning Jackie went riding on her bay gelding, Bit of Irish, over bridle paths that had been specially cleared of snow. For the Kennedys, Glen Ora visits will be one more front in the fight for privacy and informality...
...love the snow, Radcliffe girls built a snow deer in their Yard, and sports car owners have been seen good-naturedly probing drifts in search of their cars. Yet each day, a mountain of precious snow melts away. And yesterday, in one of the most grotesque displays of municipal extravagance since the last snow storm, the City of Camridgbe began its wasteful and shocking dumping of snow in the Concord Avenue Dump...
Platinum King. Charles Engelhard took over, the family company, Engelhard Industries, Inc., from his father in 1950 and proceeded to build it into one of the world's largest refiners of precious metals (1959 net: $3,700,000). In the last decade he has expanded his total wealth from an estimated $65 million to more than $100 million. All this has earned him a title he hates: the Platinum King...