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This small number who would have stayed away would seem to dispel the Department of Athletics' fear that broadcasting of home games might substantially cut down on attendance figures...
...discovered, by using radioactive isotopes as tracers, that plants photosynthesize protein as well as carbohydrates directly under light. Western scientists saw no evidence that the Russians have made important advances beyond Western accomplishments, but they were impressed by the Soviet revelations. Said one U.S. official: "This conference ought to dispel forever the idea that the Russians are stumblebums in science...
...final date" that the Supreme Court lays down for de-segregation. Professor Gordon Allport, who has studied the decline in prejudice that accompanies forced de-segregation in schools and factories, sees grave problems in the Southern leadership's drastic opposition to compliance. Integration is surely the best way to dispel racial bias, but integration cannot occur until Southern politicians have exhausted their evasive ingenuity...
Although the Administration recognizes the unfairness of this situation, it has done nothing to dispel the confusion over rents. There has never been a complete re-assessment of all rooms in the Yard. NO one knows when the current prices were set or exactly how they were determined. According to the Department of Buildings and Grounds, such factors as size, floor, and bathroom facilities were probably among the original criteria. But the Department admits that there is no standard system for applying these criteria. In addition, the price of a given room depends on such factors as the view, which...
...intervened an entire province for seven years, and Argentines assumed that he must have urgent reasons for the crackdown. According to stories floating about Buenos Aires, Perónista officials in the three provinces had gone in heavily for nepotism and graft, but last week Minister Borlenghi tried to dispel such unpleasant talk. "I want to make it clear," he said, "that none of the charges have to do with the honesty of the governments intervened." The trouble, Borlenghi explained in phrases worthy of authoritarian doubletalk, was that the three provincial governments showed "a lack of interest in public service...