Word: eagers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...away lay Auschwitz and the adjoining concentration camp, Birkenau. The Pope visited the cell of a beatified Franciscan priest, Martyr Maximilian Kolbe, who offered his own life to save a fellow prisoner. The prisoner, Franciszek Gajowniczek, was there, along with other survivors of the camp (including some 200 priests), eager to roll up their sleeves and show the tattooed serial numbers on their arms. Said one of the first inmates, an old man who had been injected with typhoid in a Nazi medical experiment: "Our religion helped us survive the greatest hell on earth." Said another: "One miracle is that...
Instead of publishing the article on his own responsibility, as editors normally do, Knoll submitted it to the Government first. Far from being eager to throttle the press, the Government ignored several letters and persistent phone calls from the magazine before taking action against it. Knoll explained that his attorney had warned him that the Atomic Energy Act is so broadly written that editors can be prosecuted not just for printing Government secrets but also for publishing information that the Progressive says it gathered entirely in the public domain or through interviews. Knoll told the editors: "I now regret having...
Despite the complaints, students are eager for a GSD planning degree. Stephen G. Hoffman '64, registrar in the GSD says applications to the department have risen steadily. About 255 people applied for 120 spots in 1978, and this year 240 have already applied. He said nobody who declined an invitation to attend the school mentioned the APA decision as a factor...
...struggle over sugar is an embarrassment for Jimmy Carter. Eager to slow the rising cost of food, the Administration condemned the bill when it was introduced in the House last February by a coalition of farm-state legislators. But when sugar industry supporters in Congress threatened to retaliate by blocking approval of the international trade agreement that was endorsed last month in Geneva, the White House abruptly switched signals and said the President would support the bill. The turnabout left White House Inflation Adviser Alfred Kahn in an impossible situation. Asked during House Agriculture Committee hearings if he considered...
...sends it directly to his 80 clients, thereby avoiding a syndicate's customary fee of 50%) and has so far been unsuccessful in his quest for academy membership. Yoakum, 57, in one column described how the Indians tried to reclaim Manhattan from Mayor Beame, who was only too eager to give it back, and in another, after wincing at the mistakes in a lately deceased friend's obituary, imagined how his own would be botched: "LAKEVILLE, CONN.-Robert Yoakum, syndicated columnist and ... first ad obit Yoakum here today at the age of two or three days...