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...remember one student council being torn down with popular approval when its President, a conservative "Goldwater" Republican, used his position to imply a general conservative swing among Harvard undergraduates. I remember another council disappearing when House Committees independently seceded. Would you have that freedom in the future under the new plan? I think not. We must retain a way of keeping a council for the benefit of the students, and not just for the political careers of student politicians...
...Oden and Lester Perks, seniors at the University of Pennsylvania, and Carl O'Donnell of Philadelphia Community College-are now trying to get reimbursed for the losses, which they estimate at $13,000. The authority is being helpful in its own way. It returned a large pile of torn mattresses, damaged furniture and waterlogged rugs from the city dump. There is no trace of the stereo sets, camera and other valuables that the boys had carefully locked in a separate room of the house...
...train no longer leaves for Narragansett Race Track. A few years ago the bar man in the club car would fill up the glasses of exam period refugees and talk of the day he tore his shirt on the liquor cabinet and bet on a 30-1 shot named Torn Shirt in the fifth. "She'll win it easy," he said. "I mean it's as good a way as any to pick a horse...
...master has made such points in films from Foreign Correspondent to Torn Curtain. But at 70, Hitchcock seems suddenly to have forgotten his own recipe. Topaz contains no chills, no fever-and most disappointing, no entertainment. By the finale, the predictability of every turn and the grossness of the heroes and villains recall the old gag about the espionage agent who whispered a code message to a locked door. "Wrong apartment," came the reply. "I'm Ginsberg the tailor. You want Ginsberg the spy, upstairs...
...which is very similar to Harvard's at the end of 1968. Winds pulled up some of the anchors though. so the bubble had to be deflated. After it was blown up again, a heavy wind blew in from the Harlem River and collapsed the bubble. The fabric was torn by support poles...