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Michael produces his solution with obvious satisfaction. "We have now decided to expand on our own campus, to have four semi-independent high schools. We maintain you can have four high schools on one campus, just as well as if they were in different parts of town." Such a plan enables the big expensive facilities--library, gymnasium and swimming pool, lunchroom--to be utilized by all schools, and still to have administrations and student bodies small enough to function effectively...
Vesper was all but ignored until it beat Harvard by two lengths in the semi-final heats on Friday, and even then many experts tagged that Vesper victory a fluke. It wasn...
This morning's semi-finals should provide the Harvard eight with a somewhat sterner test. Their principal foe will be the Vesper Boat Club of Philadelphia, which easily defeated Princeton and the Laconia "C" crew Wednesday. Crimson Coach Harry Parker said that Vesper, consisting of a motley crew of oarsmen ranging in age from 20 to 46, looked as impressive as West Coast powerhouse California in the opening round...
Every so often, the semi-intellectual communities at the fringes of the arts, the universities, and the communications industries are hit by a new book, which becomes a fad or a parlor game. This summer's possible candidate, with what may be just the right combination of intelligence, arrogance and pseudo science, is Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media...
Ring of Treason is a semi-documentary spy drama so set on realism that it takes one of Britain's most pedestrian episodes of peacetime espionage as a model, apparently to avoid drama, thrills or sex. The movie re-creates events leading to the 1961 conviction of Gordon Arnold Lonsdale, born Konon Trofimovich Molody, who was recently swapped back to the Russians in exchange for Greville Wynne. Still in a British prison for their association with Lonsdale are pub-crawling Chief Petty Officer Henry Houghton; his plump, middle-aged sweetheart Elizabeth Gee, who filched diagrams, manuals and Admiralty fleet...