Word: actes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking on behalf of the motion offered by NSA advocates, Derek T. Winans '60, Chairman of the Harvard Freedom Council, said, "Harvard is the leading academic institution in the country, and it should act like a leader...
...cabinet whenever the Premier has not been overthrown by a motion of no confidence, even though Parliament has made the Premier's life impossible, or should the President dissolve the Assembly whenever it has paralyzed the government, then a move which the President might interpret as a pure act of arbitration "designed to insure the normal functioning of the institutions" will inevitably become a hot political issue...
...occasion a patrolman questioned while in the act of presenting a ticket was unable to explain the law being violated...
...north in Ludington, Mich., Gene and Pauline Skerbeck were toughing it out with their Sunday school (clean, no girlie shows, no flatties). The weather was bringing in bloomers, and though Pauline burned blessed palm leaves in her trailer, the red ones were few and far between. A strip act might have pulled more of a crowd, but Pauline was against it. "We're Catholics, you see. I always tell people that ask where the girl show is that they should save their $1.50 and get their wives to take off their clothes and dance around nude at home...
...Navy last week announced contracts to build a radio telescope costing $60 million. The project has two defense purposes: 1) the telescope's enormous dish antenna, over 400 ft. in diameter, can act as a beam transmitter and bounce powerful radio signals off the moon. When they return after 2.6 sec., they can be received with good freedom from jamming at any place on earth where the moon is in the sky; 2) there is also a worthwhile possibility that the great telescope, which concentrates radio waves as a big optical telescope concentrates light waves, will be able...