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...Brasília was so heavy that the country's four major airlines set up temporary counters in the lobby of the Congress building, and as a gag Deputies went around greeting each other, "Hello, Mr. Minister." Goulart himself flew off to Rio for two days to confer with army generals and politicians...
...like means of publicizing an obscure school by honoring a name larger than its own. A certain amount of academic backslapping was noticeable, the kind C. P. Snow had in mind in The Affair when he wrote, "Cambridge dons are not distinguished men. They are just men who confer distinctions upon one another." Yet most honorary degrees are the well-earned accolades of an open society to men of merit. Noteworthy last week...
President Pusey will confer academic degrees this morning on 3,552 students from the College and graduate schools at the University's 312th commencement exercises in Tercentenary Theater. An estimated 15,000 people are expected to attend...
...intelligence operated. I now know." Even before the prosecutor finished his summation at the end of the trial, the government newspaper Izvestia appeared in the courtroom reporting his demand for punishment: a death sentence for Penkovsky and ten years in jail for Wynne. The military tribunal retired to confer, then passed judgment. Penkovsky's mouth dropped open in shock when the verdict was announced. He would be shot; Wynne would do eight years in jail...
Among other business that the Council transacted yesterday was a request that the City Manager confer with Police Chief Daniel J. Brennan about the possibility of enacting legislation that would require the front of all bicycles to be equipped with a reflector...