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Kenneth T. Bainbridge, George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics, and Francis Birch '24, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, joined six M.I.T. professors in calling the U.S. plan "a practical first step forward." The scientists sent a statement to the Christian Science Monitor and other newspapers last week...
...senseless, back-breaking labor. Meals were always the same watery gruel with chunks of rotten fish (Shukhov was jeered because he refused to eat fish eyes when they were floating free in the soup). The guards made the prisoners undress outside to be frisked, beat them with birch clubs, threw any who talked back into a barely heated "cell," where a ten-day sentence meant a probable case of tuberculosis and 15 days meant certain death...
...present the department houses its administrative offices in the museum and its laboratories in both the ROTC building and the Dunster laboratories. Francis Birch '24, chairman of the department, said that the move into the new facilities will be completed sometime before summer...
...Rousselot was introduced by Robert Welch, leader of the John Birch Society, who made a surprise appearance at the rally. Rousselot, now the Socioty's Western "District Governor", was defeated last year in his bid for reelection...
Thomas Anderson, editor of Tennessee's Farm and Ranch magazine, was introduced by the master of ceremonies as "a friend, and fellow-member on the council of the John Birch Society...