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...recent years half of both the men and women students have been members of fraternities and sororities. The ratio between men and women at Ole Miss is 60-40. Though there are many exceptions to this rule, the Greeks usually have higher scholar tic average that the "independents," especially among the girls. Last June three students graduated with special distinction: all three were Greeks...
...time, if ever there was one, for the tic. It was time for all the attractively nervous and neurotic gestures, twitches and gloom, that have long characterized the performances of Judy Garland. She came on stage last week in Chicago's great Arie Crown Theater and, after telling the 5,000 people there that she was so happy she just wanted to sing, started out with Hello Bluebird. Bluebird got stuck in her throat. She hacked and coughed and failed to clear it. "The bluebird is in a little trouble," she said cheerfully...
...over, who have long since written off John Steinbeck's flawed talent. The author himself confessed that he was unable to explain his reasons for writing novels "because it is so long since I have wondered why." Steinbeck added: "I guess it's become like a nervous tic...
...latest of these is Tom Courtenay, who plays the young delinquent hero in the film version of Alan Sillitoe's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. He looks like malnutrition itself-hollow cheeks, hair too long, sallow skin that seems to harbinger a tic. He might well have been plucked off the streets by some director casting a social-protest story. He was raised, as a matter of fact, in the slums of Hull. But he was educated at the University of London, trained by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and apprenticed...
...government case continues, and though foreigners are forbidden to make contributions to political campaigns, freely contributed money to the candidates of his choice. Stonehill also kept telephone wiretapping equipment handy, maintained a complete dossier on all his government contacts. Winking at Stonehill's illegalities became almost a governmental tic; investigators charge that he illegally imported cigarette paper into the country, declaring the shipments as "school supplies," and manufactured cigarettes illegally. Another charge: that he smuggled $34 million out of the Philippines when dollar exports were illegal without a license...