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...must be strict, the comparison ends there, for the College has never found it necessary to impose concentration on the Houses. Old traditions, abetted by inertia, have given each House unique characteristics, based more or less on the type of undergraduate who through the years has gathered there with greatest regularity...
...eyes have an intensely pained look, particularly when he has to sit still and listen to someone else talk. In appearance, friends have compared him to a better-fed Savonarola. He likes Brooks Brothers suits, good leather, fast cars, fine food (the waitresses at his favorite restaurants are under strict instruction not to tempt him with rolls and desserts), but whatever he enjoys, he usually enjoys in a hurry. He sometimes catches a movie, but rarely finds time to do any light reading-"I always have to read some damn great book." His wife has bought him a posture chair...
Manhattan's Liberty Music Shops, Inc., which claims to be the biggest U.S. retailer of phonograph records, reached its eminence with a strict policy against cut-price sales. But in half-page ads last week, it astonished the record industry by cutting prices 30% on "ALL MAKES-ALL SPEEDS -ALL SIZES." As sales jumped tenfold, Macy's and Gimbels reduced their own record prices by 30%; Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus advertised cuts of 40%. As some Boston retailers also slashed prices, it looked as if the price war might spread across the country...
Westerns are like music of the Classical period. They are always composed according to a strict formula. There are only so many situations that a Western producer can use: cowboys & Indians, gold-mining, and so on. Within those restrictions producers can do anything they wish, and they do some marvelous things...
Ruthless slaughter of infected or exposed stock, plus enforcement of strict quarantine measures, are the only known methods of stamping out the savagely virulent disease. Canada's Department of Agriculture is enforcing both measures to the limit in Saskatchewan. The 22 farms where the disease exists have been tightly quarantined. Bulldozers have begun digging a series of deep trenches on the hard-frozen prairies. As fast as the mass graves can be dug, cattle, sheep and goats from the infected farms are herded into them and shot by Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables with .303 rifles. More than...