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...Clamp Down, At last week's hearing, George A. Williams, materials manager of the G.E. division, admitted the purchase. Blared Pennsylvania's Republican Senator James H. Duff: "When you are paying eight or nine times the market price, don't you think you are in the black market?" Williams shrugged uncertainly. Snapped Duff: "Well, I can tell...
...Dean was also "compelled to interrupt your vacation and delay my own" in order to warn that Yale was preparing to clamp down sharply on class cutting next year. Juniors and seniors can no longer "manage their own attendance," but will be limited to twenty cuts each term...
Author Kenneth Fearing has tried to clamp a humanist allegory on a science-fiction frame. His real villain, the Industrial Revolution, is 200 years old, and his moral (Destroy the machine before the machine destroys you) has an antique creak. The author of that high-voltage thriller, The Big Clock, Fearing seems to have forgotten for the moment what time...
...very fact that he is juggling his lineups in mid-season. Bolles is usually reluctant to change the position of even one man after the first race and his experimentation yesterday indicates that he is willing to use fairly radical measures to pull his oarsmen out of their clamp...
Hall revealed that the Graduate Center dining hall would clamp down on students reneging on board and on those who give their identification tickets to non-signed-on friends when not eating in Harkness themselves...