Word: claims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scientist in the Department of Nutrition of the Harvard School of Public Health has challenged the statements of the U.S. Public Health Service, the American Heart Association and others who claim cigarette smoking is causally linked to deaths from coronary heart disease...
...institution. The state-college system in California, with 18 campuses in operation and four more in the works, has 142,000 students, thus is twice as large as the nine-campus University of California. Some of these colleges, such as freewheeling San Francisco State and San Diego State, justifiably claim that they are better than many a public university elsewhere-and, in fact, are bitter about their lack of university status. Pennsylvania maintains a strong system of 13 state colleges (including famed Slippery Rock), which have grown from 15,979 students ten years ago to 47,987 today...
...silent, but barely so. Apparently one of his key objectives was simply to ease tensions. "We were able perhaps to convey expression of opinion which helped understanding a little," he says cautiously. Since there were a whole series of more formal mediation efforts in the works, Curle hesitates to claim credit for any specified accords. He feels, though, that his team--he and two other Quakers--may have prevented some potential disasters by warning the antagonists against specific actions which would have ruptured the tenuous cease-fire...
...MFDP delegation would stand no chance of being seated. It embarrassed the party in '64, squawked loudly over the compromise, and is now so fragmented that it could not possibly claim to represent more than a half dozen counties...
Harvard administrators claim that students are listened to and have influence already: "Any good idea will be approved, no matter if it comes from the students, the faculty or Hayes-Bickford." But even communication between students and faculty--the basis of any meaningful contact--is haphazard if not non-existent. Some examples of this occurred this fall. The Committee on the Houses (COH) relied on the CRIMSON to communicate to the Harvard Undergraduate Council (HUC) its decision regarding the HUC's parietals proposal and the HUC's request to meet with the COH. In fact, the official spokesman for this...