Word: convertibility
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...November Action Coalition (NAC) has obtained a copy of a private memorandum to M. I. T. President Howard W. Johnson which-the NAC claims-proves that M. I. T.'s plans to convert its laboratories from war-related research are "nothing but a fraud...
...face of an impending phase-out of the USL faculty and student support," the memo reads. "it appears that a $1 million Ford Foundation grant to 'convert' the Special Labs will be announced and in force...
...never said officially said that it would 'convert' the Instrumentation Labs. But the university has taken steps in recent months to counter radical criticisms of the war research, including the firing of Charles S. Draper, previous head of the I-labs...
Many human beings convert only 1% of their cyclamate intake to CHA, and so minute a quantity might well be harmless. But for unknown reasons other, equally "normal" people convert as much as 40% to CHA; if they are heavy users of cyclamates, the resulting high dose of CHA might cause cancer or other diseases. Like countless other chemicals, cyclamates also cause breaks in the chromosomes of both man and animals, but the genetic significance of these breaks is not yet known...
...Docket Committee would "receive proposals for Faculty action from all sources... convert each proposal into a docket item,... specify the procedure by which it should be considered,... propose the appropriate form of voting,... and... call the attention of the Faculty to the kind of timetable that should be followed...