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Although the construction is expected to cost about $400,000 altogether, no final estimate has been made and no ground-breaking date set, according to Frances R. Brown, Dean of Residence. Rogers House will be torn down either this summer or next, however, and construction will take nearly a full academic year, so that the three units should be ready for occupancy in the fall of either...

Author: By Penelope C. Kline, | Title: Single Gift Will Finance 'Cliffe Co-op Dormitories | 12/2/1959 | See Source »

...from the start as a well-organized stock swindle. He had lied again and again, first indignantly denying all, then thrusting up new lies containing partial admissions. Almost with relish, Van Doren testified that he had been foolish, naive, prideful, avaricious. To the hilt, he was the anguished soul torn by struggles of conscience-and when he finished, there was barely a dry eye among the Congressmen. In an outburst of Senator Claghorn sentimentality, most lauded his "fortitude" and "soul searching." After Van Doren thanked the committee and said he hoped that he would not do "that sort of thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Van Doren & Beyond | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...Dubois, it was pretty much the same old story: in nearly 30 years as a correspondent covering the political turmoil of Latin America, he had been mauled by Peronista hoodlums in Argentina, threatened by Panamanians, and beaten by Communist thugs in Guatemala. Last week he seemed about to be torn to bits by one of Fidel Castro's Havana mobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: I'll Be Back | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Stores facing Mt. Auburn St. and Dunster St. will not be torn down, however, until later in the spring. All the stores have been served eviction notices dated April, and the major part of construction will start at that date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Center Work Begins | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

Braniff man, Pilot Frank Staley, grabbed a seat near the front. Baum made a couple of descending spirals, wove between hills near the town of Oso. He was only 200 yds. from the pasture. But the 707. torn and tossed far beyond the limits of its carefully engineered endurance, gave up. The fiery wing exploded, and the plane splashed into the Stillaguamish River. The forward section disintegrated on impact, killing Baum, Berke, Engineer Hagen and Frank Staley, The tail section hit a sandbar, and the four men inside crawled to safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Tricks of the Trade | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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