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...NINTH WAVE (332 pp.)-Eugene Burdick-Houghfon Mifflin...
...other elections, James R. Sikes '57 was named Vice-president and John U. Burdick '57, Jared U. Diamond '58, James L. Kincaid '58, John Kozol '58, and Richard H. Murray '58 were selected as officers at large for the council...
Other members of the committee were: Daniel F. Hayden '57, Eliot; Paul G. O'Leary '56, Dudley; Jonathan U. Burdick '57, Lowell; Toby Citrin '56, Leverett; Robert W. Serlvner '57, Kirkland; Robert M. O'Neil '56, Winthrop; Daniel A. Reznock '56, Dunster; Richard H. Murray '58, Winthrop...
...While the final vote was overwhelming (223-113 in the House, a shouted voice vote in the Senate), the Congressmen acted only after hearing some caustic words about their own worth. The sharpest comments came from North Dakota's sharp old (76) Republican Representative Usher L. (for Loyd) Burdick, a lawyer, rancher, collector of rare books and a Congressman for 16 years.' In the first place, said Burdick, some of his colleagues were not being honest when they called their present salary $12,500 a year, and failed to mention their $2,500-a-year special expense account...
Author Stackpole follows the old Nantucket industry to its peak in the 1830s, when the search for whales had long since taken the ships into the Pacific. There, Stackpole believes, a Nantucket master named Captain Christopher Burdick deserves credit for being the first to sight the Antarctic continent. Others discovered new islands, gave them Nantucket family names, e.g., Gardner, Starbuck and Swain Islands...