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Department has submitted its proposals to Dean Ford for Faculty consideration, even though Dunlop says he is not sure the Faculty's edict on junior tutorials applies to this situation. "My own view," says Dunlop, "is that it does...
...that it had deprived Tarsis of his citizenship, "for actions discrediting a citizen of the U.S.S.R.," leaving him permanently stranded in Britain. Tarsis had asked for it. He had roundly condemned "Soviet bandit fascism" at a London press conference, followed that blast with an article, obviously written before the edict but published after it, in the Sunday Telegraph reporting that despite savage persecution, "our people's immeasurable love of freedom is growing...
...months for appliances, from 36 to 30 months for furniture, from 30 to 27 months for autos. Television sets, which most Britons lease rather than buy, will require 32 instead of 20 weeks' advance rent. On top of that, the Bank of England renewed its 1965 edict that total lending by banks and loan companies may rise only 5% above the level of last March...
...chariots and wagons jammed axle-to-axle on the cobblestones. Today it is Fiats and Alfa-Romeos bumper-to-bumper in a jam that reaches maximum autosclerosis in Rome's downtown arteries during the holiday shopping season. Caesar solved the problem in his day by imperial edict, banning carts, wagons, coaches and elephants during daylight hours. Last week Rome was trying the same thing on a smaller scale-and ruefully discovering banning Fiats by fiat to be hardly a Caesarian triumph...
This year, as Vermonters prepared to elect a new legislature under a federal court's reapportionment edict, Democrats naturally expected new triumphs, since their party is strongest in the towns and cities that would be fairly represented in the state assembly for the first time. Lieutenant Governor John...