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Dr. Donald G.. Marquis, interna-onally known psychologist, has beenppointed professor in the School ofndustrial Management. He has been·ailrman of the departments of psy-lology at both Yale and the Uni-ersity of Michigan. His contribu-:ons in research and publicationare ranged over such fields as learn-g, manpower utilization and social)sychology of human behavior in or-

lanizations.

"IIT's active interest in the hu-an side of economic enterprise goesck mole than two decades to thetablishment of the Industrial Re-tions Section in 1937," Dean E. P.ooks of the School of Industrial

anagement has said. "The distin-ished social scientists who haveen members of the Section haveade outstanding contributions toFiledge in labor relations and per-nnel administration, and have help-to broaden the education of sev-

al generations of MIT students."

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anagers. It is obvious that profoundanges are taking place all over therld in the demands on industrialanagement and in the nature of

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The MIT community will be in fora rare treat tonight as Ella Fitz-gerald makes her appearance inKresge Auditorium at 8:30. Sched-uled as a part of Ella's winter tour,the Kresge performance will be heronly appearance in the New Englandarea.

Chuck Staples, Baton Society Presi-dent, reports that nearly all the tick-ets have been sold, and the onechance for late-comers will be last-minute cancellations. Kresge seats1200 and an overflow crowd is ex-pected, this being Ella's only ap-pearance in Boston. The Baton So-iety, musical honorary of MIT, is

sponsoring the concert."Evening with Ella Fitzgerald"

will feature selections by Cole Por-ter, Rodgers, and Hart, and IrvingbBerlin. In addition Ella will feature

Top MIT Internat'lWeek Slogan WriterTo Visit UN Gratis

A one-day expense paid trip to thernited Nations Building in New

Yolrk City is in the offing for theinner of a slogan contest sponsored

y the International Week Commit-ee.

Chairman Jaine de Sola '59 an-ounced that this prize will be given

the writer of the best short sen-ence advertising and popularizinghe mid-April International Week.Entries should be written to con-!rm to the purpose of the week,hich is promoting international co-pelration and understanding.Deadline for turning in entries has

een set as Feb. 16. The winner mayake his trip at the time of his choos-ng dulring the spring term.The International Week Committeeels that through this program for-

ign students will have the opportu-ity to show American studentseir way of life just as they are

hown ours through living here.

some current hits and, of course,jazz, jazz, jazz. Accompanying Ellais guitarist Herb Ellis, of the OscarPeterson Trio, a group with whichshe sang on the West Coast recently.Lon Levy, formerly with WoodyHerman, will perform on the eighty-eight, while Wilfred Meddlebrooks, amusician long connected with CountBasie, will strum the bass. Both Ellisand Meddlebrooks are from Los An-geles.

Ella will arrive in Boston fromNew York late this afternoon. Im-mediately after the show she willcatch a plane to Rochester, NewYork, for an engagement there. Jazzfans should take advantage of thisopportunity while they can, for Ellaplans a tour of Europe this April.Before her appearance in New York,Ella had been playing the WestCoast.

Ella, known as America's FirstLady of Song, had her start in thetwenties when she recorded her firstsong, A Tisket a Tasket. Since thisearly start in the Harlem, Ella hasshot to the top of her field. AlthWughElla devotes most of her time to re-cording for the Verve label, she hasstarred in several movies, the mostrecent being "Pete Kelley's Blues."Some of her latest albums were LP'swith other famous artists, includingLouis Armstrong. Her most recent"Ella Fitzgerald Sings Her SongBooks," features hits by Cole Porter,Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Ir-ving Berlin. Ella has appeared inBoston before at Storyville and Blin-strub's, but this will be her only ap-pearance here this year, as she is re-turning to Europe. She was therelast summer and sang at the World'sFair at Brussels.

The reasons behind the perennialdifference between MIT's all-men'saverage and all-fraternity averagewas the topic of a Tuesday night'smeeting of fraternity scholarshipchairmen.

Fourteen houses were representedat the conference, which was direct-ed by Bob Lienhard '60, who was re-cently appointed IFC scholarshipchairman, a post which had been va-cant for several years.

The discussion was called primari-ly as a preliminary feeler, to get anidea of fraternity attitudes towardscholarship and methods for its im-provement. Over a period of years,all-fraternity average has run con-sistently one-tenth of a point underall-men's average. The purpose ofIFC's scholarship committee will beto try to find reasons for this differ-ence and make these findings avail-

able for individual fraternity use.Lienhard stressed that IFC was nottrying to legislate scholarship orforce fraternities to adopt these sug-gestions.

Another function of the committeewill be awarding the trophies pre-sented each year to the houses hav-ing highest average, highest pledgeclass average, and most impnlrovedscholarship.

Fraternity 1requirements Ifor initia-tion and study regulations within thehouse were discussed at some length.Initiation requirements varied con-siderably from house to house, rang-ing from simply staying in the In-stitute to a 3.0. Quiet hours aresomewhat universally set at froln7:30 p.m. or so throughout eachweek-day evening. Following is a Tan-dom sampling of scholastic rules insome fraternities.

Beta Theta Pi enforces quiethours from 7:00 on every night ex-cept Saturday. If necessary, fines areavailable to aid enforcement, and a3.0 average is required for initiation.

Phi Gamma Delta and Delta Upsi-lon enforce quiet hours, but levy nofines. DU requires a 3.0 for initia-tion, Phi Gam a 2.5.

Pledges of Sigma Nu must remainat their desks from the commence-ment of study hours, at 8:00 p.m.,until they go to bed, with per:mis-sion required to leave the room. Theymust have a 2.5 their first term forinitiation, a 3.0 thereafter.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon and DeltaKappa Epsilon have no specific grade-point requisites, and though studyconditions are maintained five daysa week, neither house levies fines forbreach of regulations. AEPi requiresa 2.5 for initiation, and maintainsquiet hours after 7:30, Mondaythrough Thursday and all-day Sun-day.

The task of the scholarship coim-mittee will be to correlate these reg-ulations, along with other factorssuch as number of men per room,and produce some positive sugges-

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$10,000 Grant ToResearch ire Casting

Art Objects at MITA $10,000 grant has been made by

the Rockefeller Foundation to sup-port research by Alfred Duca, Bos-ton sculptor, in the MIT foundrylaboratoly. M1r. Duca seeks new tech-niques to take the place of 5,000-year-old methods of casting art ob-jects in nmetal.

According to Prof. Howalrd F. Tay-lor, who announced that Mr. Ducahad joined the staff of the depart-ment as a research associate, the rc-search will concentrate on the sim-plification and improvement of the"lost wax" process of molding sculp-ture, first used in Egypt and Chinathousands of years ago.

"The lost wax process, and for thatmatter, practically all casting ofsculpture, is nearly a lost art inAmerica," Professor Taylor said."Young men have found that theycan earn more money working onmass production assembly lines thanas apprentices or artisans in artcasting, wvith the result that it isdifficult to find a foundry in theUnited States to cast a work of artat a reasonable price.

"The consequence is that mnost cast-ing of fine sculpture must be donein Europe. An American who hasdlone his wto'k in clay or wax mustsend it to Italy, Portugal or France,where alrt casting is still a highlyregalrded craft. It is .generally de-sirable that he oversee the work him-self. This is one reason that sculp-tulre has languished in the UnitedStates.

Strattons EntertainSenior House Cotrmn

President Julius A. Stratton andhis wife entertained the Senior HouseCommittee Wednesday in the Pent-house. The seventeen guests present-ed him with two books as tokens ofappreciation, and following a shortcocktail ]loulr, the ensemblage par-took of a buffet supper. Dr. Strattonwas impressed with the artificialicicle display of East Campus andsaid that he expects ,is daughtersto commence growinl c.cles also.

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The Tech was in error in the lastissue in stating that Mort Achfor'59, is chorus and orchestra direc-tor of Tech Show '59. Mr. Achtorhas no connection with this year'sshow.

Phi Lambda Upsilon President Dr. David H. Freeman awarding membership to chemistryresearch men: Professors David P. Shoemaker. Norman A. Nelson. and Frederick D. Greene.

Phi Lambda Upsilon Comaputers UnsnarlElects Three Profs Traffic Jams Soon?T Fraternal Ranks Work Is Promising

Traffic janms, flrustrating and un-predictable to most people, are beingscientifically studied with the use ofcomputors by a group at MIT. Spe-cific bottleneck areas are preciselysimulated and analyzed with regardto individual vehicles and driver psy-chology.

The Operations Research Center ispresently conducting the study withthe help of The Port of New YorkAuthority. The work is focused onsuch places as the Holland and Lin-coln Tunnels and the George Wash-ington. Bridge, but the research isapplicable to heavy traffic conditionarleas around the country.

The computor genelrates a pictuIreof traffic situations, simulating theposition of each car at intervals ofa fraction of a second, so that delaysand varying distances betwseen ve-hicles can easily be seen. The in-formation fed into the computor hasbeen obtained from various sourcessuch as a camera mounted in one ofthe towers of the George WashingtonBridge. Walter Helly, one of the Cen-ter's research engineers, remarked,"I can study the actions of 100 carsin a simulated situation on the com-putor in the same time it would takeme to study one car at, say, the en-trance to the Sumner Tunnel in Bos-ton."

An essential work of the plrojectis to build into the simulation theproper characteristics of individualdrivers. The camera mounted in theGeorge Washington Bridge can de-

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The election of three faculty memn-bers of the Chemistry Departmentto membership in the Beta AlphaChapter of Phi Lambda Upsilon wasannounced Tuesday, January 13. Thenew members are Professors Fred-erick D. Green, Norman A. Nelson,and David P. Shoemaker. All are as-sociate professors of chemistry.

Professor Greene joined the MITfaculty in 1955 after studying at Am-herst and Harvard. He is presentlyconducting a research program onorganic reaction mechanisms. Profes-sor Nelson came to the Institute in1955 also, and is now probing intoenol ether reactions. He attended the.Universities of Alberta and Wiscon-sin. Professor Shoemaker attendedReed University and Cal Tech be-fore coming to MIT in 1951. He isusing X-rays to study chemical struc-ture.

Whereas undergraduates are ad-mitted on the basis of scholasticachievement or research, faculty can-didates are judged on research andteaching.

The purpose of the fraternity is topromote high scholastic achievement,and high standards of research andteaching in various fields of chemis-try. Phi Lambda Upsilorn awards theFreshman Award for excellence inchemnistry and gives a series of lec-tures each year in conjunction withthis purpose. This spring the fra-ternity will invite high school teach-ers to their lecture series. The fra-ternity numbers 100 undergraduatesand 20 faculty members.

management's responsibilities. Theo-ry and practice are undergoing ex-tensive modification as a result ofthese changes, which we believe theywill accelerate in the future. Theappointment of Dr. Marquis to ourfaculty is in line with our desire togive proper emphasis to this vitalsubject."

Dr. Marquis received his Ph.D.from Yale in 1932 and since thenhas chaired the psychology depart-ments at both Yale and the Univer-sity of Michigan. For the past yearand a half he has been on the staffof the Social Science Research Coun-cil in New York. During the war hewas director of the Office of Psycho-logical Personnel of the NationalResearch Council and served also inthe Office of Scientific Research andDevelopment under Dr. VannevarBush, now Honorary Chairman of theCorporation. He was a trustee of An-tioch College from 1952 to 1956. Hehas been a consultant to many publicand private organizations includingthe Carnegie Corporation, the FordFoundation, the Veteran's Adminis-tration and the National ScienceFoundation. He is a past presidentof the American Psychological Asso-ciation and a member of the Nation-al Advisory Committee on MentalHealth.

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a touch of realism takes you along the steps of the mum-bling Maigret without even realizing it. This picture cur-rently showing at the Exeter is taken from one of the booksand has all the qualities of it, mystery, excitement, realism,atmosphere, and the final twitch, unexpected and unex-pectable. A very fine picture indeed with a calm perfor-mance by Jean Gabin and a uniform good quality of theother actors; it is worth seeing, if you don't arrive in themiddle. Quite apart from this commentary I would like toexplain, for those who think that I praise a French moviemore than an American one, the only reason is that Franceonly exports good pictures. We do have the same terribleones you can find here, but fortunately we never see themon this side of the Atlantic. As for Inspector Maigret, it isa "thriller", and a good one. It would be ridiculous to tellyou the story, given the classification of "detective story".The photography is regular black and white as usual for agood "thriller" (unless it's by Hitchcock when it doesn'tdepend on technicalities of any sort), and the rhythm isvery fast. All leads to one suspect, but . . . a very comicfigure in the person of one of the inspectors relieves thetension in the good spots. Some nice looking girls, somesmart devices and traps set by Maigret, and the picture ison its way to a very tense and unnerving end. Tlie qualitywhich distinguishes Simenoro from other authors likeAgatha Christie and Erle Stanley Gardner is the intenseeffort to give a sound psychological background to hisstories and characters, in a certain way very much likeGraham Green, though the latter writes novels with back-ground, while Simenon writes detective stories with psycho-logical background.

Inspector Maigret is a very good picture,: dramatic, touch-ing in certain parts, brutal, and vivacious. In the sameprogram with Inspector Maigret we can enjoy a surrealistic"short" on a day in New York with beautiful colors andimages reflected in deforming mirrors creating a very inter-esting effect. The experience is quite successful, though alittle tiring to the eyes after a while. There is also a littlepicture on a certain mountain in New Zealand which istypical of all skiing pictures. The Exeter, in its policy ofshowing good movies, has certainly hit a success this time,and we can't think of much better entertainment for twonext Saturday night.

-Jean Pierre Frankenhuis '61

college woerl

What is it about this time of year, this end-of-January-push time, that wakes within me all my frustrated desiresand unquenchable thirsts, and drives me onward to theRed Lion, to Simmons, to anywhere where the possibilityof assimilating a trace of knowledge is utterly nil? Finalsare more than tests of accumulated sense, they are a stateof mind. Now you just watch-tomorrow when the crowdof gents taking 6.251 adjourn to the Red Lion to celebratethe last lab of the term (as they have similarly celebratedthe end of every other lab this term), I will join them, as Ihave been known to do in the past, in similar celebrationof another lab. Oh yes, you bet it's against my better judg-ment, but I'll be there. Why don't you all join us?

Prowling through a stack of newspapers to see what'sgoing on in the world, I find that a fraternity at the Uni-versity of Louisville, while decorating the inside of theirhouse with ivy for a party, neglected to notice that they hadinstalled the poison type.

The Cormeeticut Daily CampusJ, in an article protestingthe many existing and ever-increasing number of rules re-stricting the courting of women by men on college cam-puses, advances the thought that, since the girls are largelythe ones who are doing the legislating, "... usually in theform of a straight arrow dorm council or women's studentgovernment agency," and since men tend to ". . . shy awayfrom dates with the female legislator sort . . . It is there-fore very possible that the ladies that are passing the re-strictions are of the dateless, frustrated variety, and all thatthey need to make them change their tune, some men say,is a good, hearty necking session in the lounge of somedorm or the back seat of a car." As steps to "... safeguardthose cherished social prerogatives . . .", they suggest that"... a liason group of males be assigned to detect andlabel the dateless, mateless, and kissless females, and somesort of rotation system be devised to provide them withvirile dates." They go on to say, . . . a bit of preventativebasic-drive stimulation can certainly prevent a lot of nastyregulations which at this point may be inevitable. Let's hopto it, men."

I had planned to say something about the founding ofa free love society at one noted university, but I think I'lljust end this last column, for this is the last College WorldI'll be writing, on the note of the last paragraph, speakingof the Red Lion, of Simmons, of wasting time on frivolouspastimes, of evading the curse of legitimate work wheneverthe opportunity permits, and of loafing in the most leisurelyof all possible manners, LET'S HOP TO IT, MEN!!

-Dix Browder '59

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On a gloomy evening in July 19--, in the town ofP--, bystanders were amused to see an impoverishedstudent named Rasnalikov enter the tavern ofFydor Fydorivitch in L. Street and demand a beercan opener. They smiled because they knew he hadno cans of any sort to open, and also because Fydor

For those of you who are inclined toward "modern"mUSiC, tomorrow night's SyMphony concert (MIT-notBoston) promises to be an elegant earful. The program:

Rulmpelstiltskin .......................................... KazdinConcerto for Cello .................................... Dvorak

Karl Kornacker G, soloistFirebird Suite ........................................ Stravinsky

John Corley, conducting

High point of the evening will be a toss-up between theConcei lo and the Firebird. Karl Kornacker G had appearedas soloist with the Orchestra before. Tomorrow night'sinterpretation of the Dvorak Concerto promises to be amasterful one. Stravinsky's controversial Firebird is perhapsthe Orchestra's most ambitious undertaking to date. Thisnumber has to be heard to be believed.

Opening the concert will be Andrew Kazdin's Rumpel-s/il/skfi,, a delightful fantasy derived from the familiarfairy tale. Several other of Andy's compositions have been

performed by the Concert Band in past years.

Earlier this term, a near-capacity crowd turned out forthe Orchestra's November concert. Judging from audiencesatisfaction resulting from that first' program, tomorrow'sconcert at 8:30 in Kresge should be a sell-out. But there'snothing to buy. Admission is free.

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had not kept a tavern in L. Street for some years.

Inside, a police inspector named Ilfa Ilfanoya toldhim the place was now a precinct station. "But . . .how can ... that be?" Rasnalikov gasped, pointingat a S -.... r* beer sign that read "Your kind of beer-real beer!"

"Ah, that I retain for my own pleasure," Ilfa said."Although of late I study it for some clue to therecent theft of a case of S------ r from a delivery truckin the Province of T--. Your home province, is it not?"

"Y...e... s," Rasnalikov said. "Can... he know ... ?"he thought. He glanced, trembling, at the smallblack cloud hovering inches above his head. "Whydid I bring that? . . . He is sure to notice it ... It isjust such trifles that ruin everything . . ."

"For the sake of absurd ar-gument," Ilfa said, "andalso because I have five hun-dred kopecks bet on it, letus say you are guilty. Wouldyour motive be thirst? Ava-rice? The smooth S -----.rflavor experts call round?"

Ella tonight at Kresge .tickets will go on sale atSunday afternoon at fourBruce Bennet of Baltimore

. . Any remaining or-unclaimedthe door circa 7:45 p.m ....there's a free organ recital byin the Chapel.

-Mort Achter

"I ... don't ... drink beer," Rasnalikov mumbled,aching to cry out, to die, to give Ilfa a punch in thej--."Forgive me!" cried Ilfa. "I must not detain youfurther, then, in your search for a beer can opener!You might try N-- in the village of F--."

Rasnalikov turned to go, but he could not. "Why,what is it?" asked Ilfa. "You are grown even paler.""St was I who took the case of S ------ r from the deliv-ery truck in the Province of T--," Rasnalikov sobbedsoftly. Ilfa Ilfanoya rolled his eyes. People sur-rounded them. Rasnalikov repeated the dark words.*Schaefer-TRANSLATOR

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Simenon, the author of more than twenty mystery storiesin the series of Inspector Maigret, is certainly one of themore impressive gentlemen in this art. His stories are per-fectly described, the atmosphere is created right away, and

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which was later read by Louis E.Mallron, a champion fisherman. Hewrote Dr. Schmitt, stating that heknew of large squid off the coast ofChile. The laboratory examined sev-eral samples from the six-foot squid,finding that they were an excellentsource of axoplasm. AWVith financialaid from Mr. Marron and the Officeof Naval Research, a full-time unitwas set up near Valparaiso, Chile,to obtain and process these squid.The trustees of the Charles and Mar-jorie King Trust have also been gen-erous in financial undelrvriting ofthe program.

Recent arrangements have beencompleted to ship the axoplasm oftwo to three hundred large squid perweek.

Drs. Peter Davison and EdwinTaylor have worked on isolating anddetermining the characteristics ofthe fibrous protein of axoplasm. Dr.Taylor is now in Chile to augmentthe supply of axoplasm for the MITUnit.

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Do you know that MIT has a SquidClub with headquarters in Building16? On the fifth floor a group of mo-lecular biologists, biochemists, andphysical chemists is working on aresearch program to discover themolecular machinery of nerve im-pulses. To accomplish this, a supplyof nerve fiber was needed.

The lowly squid proved to be theanswer to the biologists' prayers,since its nerve axon has a diameterfifty to a thousand times greaterthan the fiber available from mostanimals. Because of their large size,these squid nerve fibers were oncethought to be blood vessels. It wasnot until 1933 that they were provento be axons. This size is a decided ad-vantage, since by cutting the largefibers and extruding their contents,pure axoplasmn can be obtained with-out fear of contamination from sub-stances from surrounding tissues, aswas the case when using fibers fromother sources.

Dr. Francis O. Schmitt, an Insti-tute Professor since 1955, heads thisprogram. Working on this type ofresearch since 1936, Dr. Schmitt cameto MIT in 1941, at the invitation ofPresident Compton. During WorldWTar 1I the research program wasdiscontinued. Not until 1946 was thegroup able to resume its program.The National Institutes of Healththrough a long-time glrant has gen-erously subsidized the effort.

The Office of Naval Research pro-vided the Unit with a speciallyequipped truck to transport an av-erage of fifty live squid a day fromCape Cod to the Canmbridge labora-tory. After several summers it be-came evident that a more plentifulsupply of axoplasm was needed es-pecially since northern squid, whichrange in length only up to a foot,could be obtained only in the latesummer and early autumn.

In 1955 the New York Timnes fea-tured an article on this research,

little surprised by the evident suc-cess he had, the show being bookedfor several weeks and going to runat least for a year.

Mr. Dh.ry was certainly happy ofthe tremendous 1reviews he had buteverything seemed quite fantastic tohim, as are the things in the UnitedStates and he looked like a marveledchild, one for whom Santa Claus ap-peared after all, without looking toomuch like his father. A charmingman, a brilliant comedian and a pur-posely childish look on life are thecharacteristics of the wonderful andsmiling character who glreeted us, and"La Plume de ma Tante" is no lesscliarming, brilliant and refreshing ashow. There are certainly more im-portant shows on Broadway at thepresent time but it is hard to findone which is funnier.

It is already difficult for a play-wright to produce a one-act playwith only two characters, but whenthe same thing is accomplished in afull-length comedy, the author iseither an excellent writer or a fool.It is a pleasure to consider Mr. Wil-liam Gibson as an excellent writer,his play "'Two for the Seesaw" be-ing one of the funniest, most touch-ing, simplest and most charming ofthe shows we have seen for a longtime. A brilliant dialogue, alive andwitty, a touching story and a pro-found knowledge of human beings al-lows Mr. Gibson to attain the maxi-mum possible enjoyment out of thetwo hours the curtain is up. It is aplay about people, lonely people, liv-ing among the great masses of un-friendly concrete of the city of NewYork. This loneliness is, however,full of the desire of living, taking asmuch as possible from the agitatedautomation of those who eat, sleep

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LA PLUME DE MA TANTEAnyone who has a chance to go to

New York should not miss this veryfunny show of madness, legs andFrench spirit, this show whose namecould certainly be changed to:"Scenes we'd like to see". It is not agreat production, it is not headed bya cast of millions (dollars) and it isnot and never was intended to be amusical comedy. It is a "Variety"show, a wonderful, witty, hilarioussuccession of things which go wrong,mixed with a subtle touch of slap-stick, of course, and full of the bestFrench madness. In two fast movinghours, entirely dedicated to give youenough laughs for the price youpaid, and some extra ones on accountof your own sense of humor, "LaPlume de ma Tante" with RobertDhWry and Colete Brosset is a hand-full of bits of life, of show-businessscenes, most of them purposely spoil-ed by something which happens andwasn't in the book. In the middle ofa very nice act a late violinist walksfront stage to ask the maestro whichis the way to the orchestra pit; theever-lasting scene of the lady on aswing singing, with a powerful tenor,is interrupted because the gentleman]pushes too hard and sends his part-

ner back-stage; the zipper of a strip-teaser (not really) doesn't open andsomebody has to come and help her;a row-of dancers kicking their legsone way while one of them keepskicking the other way is one of thebest scenes. At the end of the scenethe manager comes to the stage andtells us that she would like to tryagain, which she does, without suc-cess; a very fine ballet goes on untilthe male lead comes on stage (PierreOlaf) and stops because he is tooself-conscious of the indecency of histights; from scene five we jump toscene seven because the girl whoshows the card couldn't find numbersix; and on and on and on. A ridicu-lous person in a bright yellow rain-coat sings riding a horse (a realone!) who keeps laughing all thetime, and so do we. Though some ex-amples were given here, it will notspoil your fun because the true comiccomes when you see it; and it is avery amusing show, with no preten-tions to be a great dramnatic eventor a fabulous vaudeville show, butjust a bit of good comedy, intendedto amuse you and not only the crit-ics. Going backstage -we found thatMr. Dh6ry is as funny in real lifeas he is on the stage. He seemed a

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and breathe dirt, neon signs, andcoldness. The girl is Anne Bancroft,who won the Antoinette PerryAward and the Variety Award, forher interpretation of Gittel Mosca,and she certainly deserves awardsfor she is the most accomplished ac-tress we ever knew at her age: asplendid performance accompaniedby a very attractive silhouette, whichshe doesn't mind showing to us when-ever possible. Miss Bancroft is ashow by herself and with the mar-velous lines she has from the scriptshe brings us to the very heights ofcomedy. The boy is Dana Andrewsand unfortunately he is far from giv-ing full satisfaction to the audience.He seems to be asleep most of thetime, and his monotonous voicethrows away what could be the bestpart he ever had in show business.It is a pity that Henry Fonda, theoriginal Jerry Ryan of the play, leftus and the director, Arthur Penn,with the responsibility of enduringthe very poor performance of Mr.Andrews, not at all "a la hauteur".It seems that Mr. Andrews, besideshaving an absolute ignorance ofwhat the play is about, hasn't real-ized yet that raising an eye-brow isenough for a close-up on the screen,but far from being enough on aBroadway stage. The direction is verygood, and shouldn't be too difficult,

Ivory TowerWith the second returning to school

this February MIT is thrust into thejockeying of the campaigns for thevarious undergraduate elected offices.But MIT is not thrust into the po-litical battles. Rather the skirmishersswoop upon this academic communitywith a great rustle of paper hang-ing as the gospel of Tom, Dick, andHarry is preached from that mostoft seen of places: the inside of thehead door.

MIT seems to have neither themass rallies and football atmospherecampaigns of some campuses nor aresentment towards t h e ambitiouscandidate's intrusion - even in themost sacred sanctuaries of contem-plation and solitude. Instead a greatmany Tech men, not all certainly butmany, show a mild interest in theability and qualifications of thosewho would head the student body.The interest in politics at the Insti-tute is not a vital interest driving usto great demonstrations but a con-cern for something which can affecta certain amount of the life at thisschool. The better qualified more ableman can accomplish more for thestudents. Considering student gov-ernment a minor though probablymeasurable force upon his life, manyof us demonstrate a mild interest inthe better candidate winning. Fewerattempts to insure the victory of thiscandidate.

The campaigning of the candidatealso points out this "individual" na-ture of politics at MIT. A personrunning for office, generally, by him-self, decides to run for that officeand alone, perhaps with occasionalhelp from friends, conducts the votedrive. In his politicking the candi-date uses the recognized best votegetting technique on campus-thepersonal approach where the candi-date and a voter talk the individualappeal.

While a split between the dormi-tories and the fraternities particu-larly during campaigns has beenslpoken of, this split does not exist toan overwhelming extent.

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Humann ';5,9 put in taro foul shotsin the last second to beat 3uItonll C3;5-33. HumIann led the ganel's scor-ers with 13 while Tomni Tisch '60 hoop-ed 12 for the loser s. Sparkedl againby their 6' 6" centelr who tallied 21points, SAE disposed of AEPi 4;5-38.The lattelr had edged Sigma :Nu 27-25 Sunday as Dave Garelick ';59 hadl9 markers in the low scoring contest.

The only other agglregation witha 2-0 record is Senior House who cap-tured two one-lpoint decisions, edgingAlpha Tau Omega 32-31 thcn GradlHouse B 34-33. Tom Taylor '61 hitfor 21 against ATO. This Sunday,the Senior House streak runs upagainst the Fijis.

Also in the ranks of the unbeatenis Phi Sigma Kallppa who toppedLambda Chi Alpha 40-33 Sunday asPat Coady '60 poured in 16 tallies.

In other first round action, BetaTheta Pi forfeited to the Sky Gazersand Grad B drubbed Phi Delta Theta70-31. The winnelrs' trio of high scor-ers was Jack Evelrsole with 19 andJohn Cutting and Pete Rosenbaumwith 17 apiece.

Wednesday evening's remaining en-counters saw Sigma Nu and theBetas put out of the tournlament byBurton House and Sigma Chi re-spectively.

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Defencing champs, Grad House Awalked over Student House 61-28,with Cy Galvin netting 1;5 for thevictors in their only playoff appear-ance prior to presstime. Last sea-son's runner up Phi Gai quintetfound Sigma Chi soft competitionSunday night to earn a 39-28 a-in,but Wednesday the Sky Gazers prov-ed tougher and cut their victorymargin to 32-28.

The Sailors notched their openinground surprise triumph when Walt

Marked by a few upsets, the intra-mural basketball playoffs began witheight first round contests Sundayand six second round games WNrednes-day night. As expected, Grad HouseA and Phi Gamma Delta are unde-feated and appear headed for thefinals as they did last year. The onlysurprises of the double eliminationtournament to date have been the vic-toTies of Sigma Alpha Epsilon overseeded Burton C and Alpha EpsilonPi.

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"10:20 a.m. I discuss a proposed lay- "11:00O a.m. At an interdepartmnentalout for the additional central oftice confereince I hellp plan p>rocedures forequilpnelt with Sul)ervisillng Enginleer another job that lve been assigned.Sam P. Abate. I'll wanlt to inspect the Workil,ngclosel! vith other departmentsinstallation area this afternoon. so I of the complany broadens your expe-telelh)hne the garage and older a car." rience and know-how -lremell(lously."

"3:10 p.m. Then I drive over to theoffice at nearby Skokie where a recentengineering assignment of mine is inits final stages. Here I'm suggestinga modification to the W'estern Elec-tric installation foreman on the joh.'"

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Sherman Karp '60 won all threeof his foil matches, while Shabel andJerry Yarborough '60 captured twoeach to wrap up that division. LarryCampbell '59 and Verderber eachtook a pair of sabre encounters, andthe losers forfeited three more. Ped-losky won three and Wempen two inepee competition, with Chuck Haspel'60 also picking up a victory.

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Shabel '59, the MIT fencing teamwent on to win a triangular matchat Walker Memorial last Saturday.The Techmen led the field with 34points against second place Trini-ty's 28 and third place Syracuse's 18.

The foilmen paced the victory witha 14 and 4 record. Shabel led thisdivision, winning all but one of hismatches. Close behind were the sa-bremen who copped 11 and lost 7.Joe Verderber '60 and Karl Koepke'60 were both in strong form, eachwith a 4-2 record. Frank Cuerbo '60had a 3-3 slate,

The epeemen were even for thecontests with a 9-9 tally. RonaldWempen '59 was outstanding in thisdivision with a 5-1 record. Joe Ped-losky '59 won 2 out of 5 and Wil-liam Jullian '61 copped 2 for 6. Er-nie Gudath '60, substituting for Ped-losky lost his snatch.

Fencers Smash BUThe Beaverl duelers were even

more impressive Wednesday eveningwhen they extended their season's rec-ord to four victories with but onesetback by trouncing Boston Univer-

Engineer HoopstersTopped by Boston U.

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of their height advantage, BostonUniversity downed tle MIT varsitybasketball squad 72-55 at RockwellCage Tuesday evening. The Engi-neelrs stayed even with the victorsuntil midway in the first half whenthe Red and White went on to gaina 42-34 lead by the intermission. Inthe second session, the visitors wid-ened their margin as the full courtpress they used throughout the gameincreased in effectiveness.

The one bright spot in the encoun-ter for the Beavers was the sharp-shooting of guard Hugh Morrow '60who tallied 27 points.

This Saturday evening, the MIThoopsters meet Army at RockwellCage at 8:15 for what looks to be aspirited b a ttle that could go eitherway.

Yearling TrackmenDrubbed by AndoverIn Season Opener

An undermanned MIT freshmanindoor track team suffered a 73-17defeat at Andover Wednesday after-noon in their opening meet of theseason. Only ten Techmen made thetrip, and the coach stated that thereis still time for any interested fresh-man to come cut for the team, asthere are three mIneets remaining aftermid-terms.

Neil Bacote was outstanding forthe Engineer yearlings, scoring elev-en of their seventeen points. Baeotewon the 40-yard dash in 4.6, tooksecond in the broad jumnp, and sec-ond in the 300-yalrd run. Steve Banksfinished second in the mile for thevisitors, with their scoring completedby third place in the high hurdles,600-yard run and 300-yard run byVal Silbey, Larry Coppola, and PeteMpontsikaris respectively.

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