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...added that the CNCV is now planning to make available to the voters material which would acquaint them with other current issues besides the Vietnam referendum. He added, however, that the CNCV would not publicly endorse candidates in the city contests...
...purpose of the little game organized by Dean Glimp's office, was to acquaint the teaching fellows with the admissions process--"to let them see how they got the students they got," Glimp said yesterday...
...Institute's own goal is to sharpen the University's awareness of such policy questions. It will sponsor Faculty research and, by a variety of other means, will attempt to acquaint other parts of the University with the intracacies of policy problems. But in this purpose, many see a distortion of the "true" role of the University. The Institute is too closely connected with "establishment" politics and policies, they say, and thereby diverts scholars from pursuing an independent line of work...
...designed each of the nutshell studies to illustrate some aspect of that basic proposition and, at the same time, to acquaint police officers with a few basic medical principles. One, for example, demonstrates the principle that blood will always settle in the area of the corpse which is closest to the ground at the time of death. Thus, if a person dies while lying on his back, gravity will draw the blood to that area and lividity (an easily observable, red discoloration) will set in. The study shows an apparent suicide, lying face down, yet with obvious lividity...
...might have been prevented many years ago, had the public been around. The questions which Mr. Nader explores in his book, Unsafe at Any Speed, are vital ones which we as a public have refused to consider until now. Your editorial reflects an apparent failure on your part to acquaint yourself with Nader's published work; should you do so, you will find that it is well researched and documented, and hardly flamboyant. Your shock at his comments on the Rolls-Royce should not obscure your appreciation for his contributions regarding other automobiles and their defects...