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...houses a few day ago they had no reason to expect "welcome home" signs, but they had every reason to expect their rooms to be in a livable condition. Now livable, for the average student who passes the academic year in a rather unkempt condition, does not mean gleaming sinks, glowing floors, and shiny new paint. All that is demanded is a clean sink, a usable shower or tub, and a comparatively dust-free bedroom. This is not demanding too much. But the returning undergraduate found it all too easy to carve his initials in the layers of dust...
...reached Chibougamau, the town consisted of little more than a rundown general store and a couple of bootleggers who sold illicit liquor to passing trappers. Then, with little fanfare, Campbell Chibougamau Mines Ltd. in 1952 sewed up a U.S. Government contract for its output, the next year started to sink a shaft. Last year it went into production, hauling concentrates laboriously by truck to the railroad at St. Felicien, 125 miles to the southeast. With a world shortage driving copper prices towards records (last week's U.S. price: about 40? a lb.), other companies holding long-neglected Chibougamau claims...
...said his family lived in a 14-room house," she recalled, "and that we'd be served by servants off gold plates. Well, you know, in the States a 14-room house means something, but there they didn't even have a sink. The place was filthy, and the food didn't agree with me. His parents expected me to sit on the floor and do the baby's washing by hand, but he didn't seem to care. I begged him to get us a house by ourselves, but he wouldn...
...need to do now." said Evangelist Billy Graham to Bill Alexander recently, "is to sink an oil well so you won't have to take up a collection." Said Alexander: "That would be the worst thing that could happen to us. People need to give...
...qualified or not--has become a difficult enough task these days. It would hardly seen sensible to start a recruitment campaign for more by discharging a large number of Negro teachers. But it would seem equally fool-hardy to accept the unqualified Negro teachers and allow educational standards to sink to the lowest common denominator in integrated schools...