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...similar to those worn by cows. Others, from the depths of their faith in the Health Ministry, believed in the beads as a magic charm against conception. One chief trouble, as it turned out, was too many babies who just loved to play with mother's beads and disrupt her calculations...
Last week the President also: ¶ Chided the Congress for its $140 million cut in Atomic Energy Commission funds, which the President said would disrupt work on atomic weapons and impede the development of nuclear propulsion and peaceful uses of atomic energy. Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson, Joint Atomic Energy Committee chairman, agreed that "the cuts did go too far," called a meeting of his committee to consider reinstating the AEC funds...
...suggested a compromise. The foreign ministers could meet first, to iron out the agenda and make sure the Russians had no opportunity to disrupt the top-level meeting by a sudden demand, for example, for the presence of Red China...
...about five minutes after this morning's History 169 lecture began, noises began to issue from the hall. Little interpretation or insight was needed to realize that these noises had a single purpose-to annoy Professor Schlesinger and to disrupt his lecture. One student was sent out to quiet them; he remained missing. Another tried to cope with the problem and was slightly more successful. He returned to report that the disturbance was caused by Lampoon "fools." "Fools" is the word used by the Lampoon to designate those people who wish to join its group; their analysis this morning proved...
Should one infidelity disrupt a marriage? No, says the Archbishop of Canterbury, and last week British newspapers were making shocker headlines...