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Spring usually generates a mild lunacy in the American college student; this year it is bringing a radical testing of law and the university, all with candid disregard for consequences. To students across the country - or at least to that bright, neurotic tenth of them who make themselves visible - the effect of six months of tumult at Berkeley has been to show, as Yale Student Bruce Payne expresses it, that "students have become somebody in being able to act together...
...consumers are inexorably controlled by the weather in their buying habits. Statisticians found that every degree of temperature below normal on any day in spring, and every degree above normal on any day in fall, will cause retail sales to fall off exactly 1%. Furthermore, they reported, every one-tenth inch of rain that falls between 7 a.m. and 11 a.m. on any day inevitably depresses sales...
...Manhattan ship broker, Long, 42, turns into a regular Captain Bligh when he takes the wheel of his aluminum-hulled, 57-ft. yawl Ondine. "He never lets you rest," complains Ondine's mate, Alex Salm. "He'll drive you out of your mind just to make a tenth of a knot more speed." Replies Long: "If you enjoy a sport to the ultimate, the ultimate is your standard...
Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, assistant dean of the Faculty for Resources and Planning, yesterday disclosed some of the features which the University plans to incorporate in the tenth House...
...five-member Faculty Committee on the Tenth House, which Trottenberg heads, made the plans for the new House after considering suggestions from faculty members, students, superintendents of the present Houses, House dining hall workers and other House employees...