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...newspaper." Under the plan, missile-bearing Polaris submarines probably will have multinational crews. West Germany, Italy, Belgium and Turkey have already indicated their willingness to participate, although they have not yet been told how much of the expense they will have to bear. The British promise to assign some 180 of their Vulcan bombers to NATO's new nuclear command, and the U.S. probably will contribute some SAC planes. But there are many sticky details still to be worked out. Who, for example, will turn the firing keys? And under what conditions? McNamara's Pentagon aides insist that...
...office of the Secretary of the Senate wandered Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey. He was real casual. Why, he asked, was everybody working so hard? Well, they were preparing new legislative bills for printing in time for the opening of Congress in January. And did they, asked Humphrey, also assign legislative numbers? Yes they did. Any system for assigning numbers? Nope. How about this bill here? asked Hubert. Mightn't it just as well be Senate Bill No. 1 as any other? Yes, sighed the bill clerk, it might. And so it will. It happens to be Humphrey...
...students, occupying the room were known as "chums," to a section entitled "Assign- of College Rooms" in the Harvard University Catalogue for that year. In 1875-76 edition of the catalogue and editions, "chums" was by "roommates," while the rest assignment of College Rooms...
Almost all of the seminars will have assigned readings. Grossman will have his students reading Goethe's Faust, Part I, Gotthelf's Black Spider, and Brecht's Good Woman of Setzuan. Af- fred B. Lord, professor of Slavic and of Comparative Literature, will assign various Bible readings for his seminar, "Myth and Oral Tradition in the Bible," in order to promote "informal but informed discussion...
...Filed a federal suit, charging that the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway conspired to assign Negro "train porters'' to the same work done by white "brakemen" at higher pay-at the same time denying them union membership...