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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Council's ruling in effect eliminates almost all student parking on the Cambridge side of the river. With the exception of a few backyard spaces and private garages, parking can be found only in the Business School area, which provides 2,025 places, for an annual...
Liller also dwelled on some of the oddities and paradoxes of planets, in addition to debunking popular conceptions. Mercury, the smallest planet, has both the highest and lowest temperature in the solar system. While temperatures on the side of Mercury that always faces the sun rise to 800 degrees Fahrenheit, the dark side (only 50 degrees above absolute zero) is colder than Pluto, the furthermost planet from...
...Larger Weakness. Some of the soldiers on the British side were as resourceful as only years in Singapore could teach: an Australian sergeant combed the streets with a ventriloquist whose many voices caused the Japanese to pop their heads out from their trees while the sergeant picked them off. But most of the troops were too poorly trained, too disorganized to have the stomach to fight to save Singapore...
Nothing new in sight till September. In the meantime, the fittest shows survive both heat and familiarity. Among the musicals still leg-kicking: West Side Story, about street-fighting Montagues and Capulets; Fiorello!, a lively reminiscence of the Little Flower; and Bye Bye Birdie, a romp about a rock-'n'-roll groaner. On the dramatic side, there are The Miracle Worker, the story of the child Helen Keller and her teacher, superbly played by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke; The Tenth Man, Paddy Chayefsky's modern use of ancient Jewish mysticism; and Toys in the Attic...
...take only an additional 25,000 commuters. Most of the railroad regulars then fell back on private autos and car pools. Soon many drivers were getting up at sunrise to beat the bumper-to-bumper traffic on the expressways. Others, map in hand, twisted through country roads and city side streets to avoid the crush, often got lost. "Halfway home," sighed one car-pool commuter, "you usually find you've left somebody back in the city...