Word: dockets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only two weeks after the Committee's docket had reached the Faculty, Advanced Standing was brought to a vote and passed. Two weeks ago, when lit was first discussed before the Faculty, two amendments were defeated; it was then believed that the entire report would probably be postponed and further discussed before any final action was taken...
Early in the meeting Faculty members attempted to cut the sophomore standing and early admission clauses out of the proposals, but when these movements were defeated it became apparent that the whole docket would be approved...
Only one change was made in the entire three-page docket. The faculty voted, at the motion of John H. Van Vleck, Dean of Applied Science, to change the last sentence under the heading "Course Reduction" to read: "Course reduction will not normally be used to hasten graduation." The CEP's version did not include the word "normally." This change will allow some men to couple course reduction with summer credit and graduate in three years...
...welched on his traditional Moslem obligation. Narriman's mother, suing as the ex-Queen's guardian, claimed that Farouk never anted up a piaster of the $28,700 he owed. Meanwhile, Farouk was having mouthpiece trouble: a Cairo court, with Narriman's divorce suit on its docket, refused to hear Farouk's Syrian lawyer, who finally dug up an Egyptian attorney who was willing to plead the porcine playboy's case...
Skidding Lancia. The second day's docket called for two laps, from Oaxaca over lofty, roller-coaster roads to Puebla (252.9 miles), then a short (79.5 miles), nightmare stretch girdling a volcano at a height of nearly two miles and then plunging in murderous curves down to Mexico City. Again the Lancias led the pack, and Italy's "King of the Mountains," Piero Taruff, relishing his favorite sort of terrain, hung up lap records of 88 m.p.h. on the long leg, 102.8 m.p.h. on the treacherous short one. Late that night, in a hospital far back...