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...This wasn't a difficult meet for us," coach Alice McCabe said. "We knew we could win it beforehand. It gave us an opportunity to use a lot of people who hadn't had much of a chance to compete so far this year...
Shockley was especially interested in press coverage of the debate; he held what he called a "tutorial" beforehand, at which he urged reporters to familiarize themselves with his theories so they could "go out and do an uncover job just like Watergate, because the coverup going on is of greater significance than Watergate...
...tradition and also helps make Commencement a drawing card for curious alumni who, Nickerson says, "always wonder who Harvard will honor." And of course there is always a great deal of speculation before Commencement on who the degree recipients will be. The best way to find out beforehand--though not totally reliable--is to check the registers of Boston and Cambridge hotels in early June for famous names, and to watch the newspapers for announcements of mysterious trips to Boston by American and foreign political leaders...
...Silber does not appoint the hearing examiner directly; he does appoint the Advisory Judicial Council which, in turn, appoints the hearing examiner. The ROTC poll was "highly publicized" only after it had taken place. Neither faculty nor students knew of the poll in advance. There was no public discussion beforehand of the poll or Silber's arguments in favor of ROTC. The Faculty Senate Council, which, as Bennett says, represents "the entire BU faculty" resolved in April to table any discussion of ROTC until this Fall. Mr. Bennett is correct about the drafting committee, but he is wrong in saying...
...emigrating to Israel at the rate of 30,000 a year. Twice this year fedayeen groups set out to attack Schönau Castle in Vienna where the refugees, who travel from Russia to Austria by train, are quartered midway in their exodus. Both times the attackers were spotted beforehand and arrested. Two months ago, another terrorist band killed four innocent travelers at Athens airport when it confused a TWA plane loading for New York with another TWA plane boarding passengers for Israel...