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...past neither official nor academic Harvard has found anything amiss in this situation. According to the traditional view, the freshman should be left alone to fend for himself; take him in hand and you prevent his maturing. Apparently this line of thinking is going out of style, for the Freshman Dean's Office has effected this year the first major revision of the advising system since its inception...
...second thought. Illinois politicians soon realized that Daley was simply trying to fend off a worse possibility than the loss of a single seat. For unless the deadlocked Illinois legislature agrees on a redistricting plan, all 24 U.S. Representatives will be picked next year in statewide at-large elections. This prospect is not displeasing to many Republicans: they hope that in a nonpresidential election year, their outstate strength might overcome Chicago's Democratic vote. Explains a Daley aide: "With 48 candidates running all over the state, people will get confused and tend to vote according to party. I think...
Chief John McCone, Foster was long ago appraised by the New Frontier's talent scouts as an able, experienced administrator who might some day fill a job for President Kennedy. Also like McCone, he is a Republican, which may help fend off partisan objections to actions taken by an agency new to the ways of Washington. Born in New Jersey, courteous, methodical Bill Foster studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, piloted "Flying Jennies" as a combat instructor during World War I, then spent 24 years with Long Island's Pressed & Welded Steel Products...
...birds such as chickens. The fertilized egg is germfree on the inside, and its shell can easily be sterilized in a germicidal bath. The "tank" in which the birds are to live can be heated to serve as an in cubator; when the chicks hatch, they can feed and fend for themselves at once. The Japanese quail is even better than the chicken because the birds begin to lay when about seven weeks old (as against seven months for chickens...
...presenting to the States-General his radical Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens. But the Revolution quickly became too violent and ugly for his aristocratic reformer's views, and La Fayette was forced to flee France, leaving Adrienne and their three children behind to fend for themselves...