Word: birching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David L. Birch '59, principal investigator for the study, said yesterday he hopes the report will demonstrate to federal housing experts the need for a mix of programs--more construction, housing subsidies, rent control, mortgage loans--in order to deal effectively with the range of housing problems across...
...research group chose the criteria for inadequate housing that led to a conservative national figure, Birch said. Physically substandard housing was judged only on the basis of adequate heating and plumbing and discounted such items as lighting, ventilation, and a unit's sanitary condition...
Thriftiest Speed. Officers of bus lines have been claiming that their maximum efficient speed, below which they will use more gasoline per mile, is 60 to 65. Truckers say that their thriftiest speed is just under 60. Democratic Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana has been lobbying for an amendment to the Energy Emergency Bill that would exempt buses and trucks from the new limits. The Interstate Commerce Commission proposes to ease its "gateway" restrictions, which until now have often forced trucks to take circuitous routes instead of direct ones between some cities. Other truckers, though, will be hurt...
...Enable John J. Sirica, as chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to name a special prosecutor who could be fired only for "extraordinary improprieties." The bill was sponsored by Democrats Philip Hart of Michigan and Birch Bayh of Indiana, and would keep the prosecutor free from the Democratic-controlled Congress as well as the White House. But some lawyers have raised doubts about its constitutionality...
...latest Marx brothers festival. In a hundred Victorian parlors like the Merriwethers', attractive parents and children play recorders and sing lieder or Cole Porter. Leather editions on subjects like Provencal poetry decorate the walls. Pedigreed dogs, knowledgeably named in Russian or even Japanese, bunk into a birch-log fire. There is a golden glow of "we": husbands and wives, colleagues, the chosen circles at dinner parties off Brattle Street, the community of the faculty club. Must Dr. Merriwether, who teaches introductory physiology, give up all this Good Life for his Cynthia, "golden-haired but almost Indian dark, slimly full...