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...Church is trying to forge the Foreign Relations Committee, which actually holds little legislative power, into a unit with the kind of authority it once held under such past chairmen as Idaho's William E. Borah (Church's boyhood hero), Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and Arkansas' William Fulbright. Under its most recent chairman, Alabama's easygoing John Sparkman, the committee "had begun to fractionate," says Church, in typically grand language. "The centrifugal power was pulling the committee into subcommittees that were taking over...
Directed by Michael Apted Screenplay by Kathleen Tynan and Arthur Hopcraft...
...piddles to a conclusion. The only possible reason for seeing this movie is to be a part of what Time Magazine called the "Return To College Hijinks"; even that doesn't apply anymore, since Time has a reputation for picking trends that last about as long as Chester Arthur. Sorry, but togas just aren't that big. Don't bother...
...could astronomers photograph a star nearly in line with the sun when it would certainly be obscured by sunlight? Answer: during a total eclipse. On May 29, 1919, during an eclipse expedition to the island of Principe off the West African coast, the British astronomer Arthur Eddington found deflections in starlight that almost matched Einstein's prediction. Later, when Einstein was asked what he would have concluded if no bending had been detected, he replied: "Then I would have been sorry for the dear Lord?the theory is correct...
...legislators are trying to get the college crowd off their backs," Arthur Wing, Northeastern University's MISC representative, said this week...