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...glance at the notice board in William James Hall reveals the existence of numerous ongoing experiments. The Faculty of Arts and Science Standing Committee on the Use of Human Subjects evaluates about fifteen proposals at each of its monthly meetings. The Timothy Leary acid days are gone, but occasional controversies still occur. Recently a State University of New York (SUNY) professor was sued for an experiment he conducted in which student subjects received electrical shocks...
...Fifteen months after its upset victory over the United Bahamian Party, Pindling's Progressive Liberal Party was as close to being a sure thing as the next day's bright, sunny weather. When the votes were finally in, the Progressive Liberals-who had been struggling along with a one-vote majority in the Bahama's 38-seat House of Assembly-finished with 29 seats, compared with only seven for the United Bahamians. Besides giving Pindling a healthy majority, the vote also meant that once and for all he had buried the predominately white United Bahamians...
...Club. Notable among them is Florida's Stu Apte, 37, a Pan American pilot and professional fisherman on the side, who qualified with an 82-lb. Pacific sailfish on threadlike 5-lb. test. In Australia, the Sydney Game Fishing Club has just started a Fifteen-to-One Club, and President John S. Quill says: "In the past year, a dozen fishermen would have qualified...
...hall could as easily have been attending the General Mills stockholders meeting next door. Dressed in conservative business suits, they admired the flintlock rifles on exhibit, talked about the Safety for Hunters program, or carefully handled $300 shotguns and rifles shown by the major firearms companies. At one exhibit, fifteen salesmen impeccably dressed in yellow blazers politely aided prospective customers for Winchester rifles while a pretty girl passed out leaflets detailing the ammunition produced by the company...
There were other problems. Mrs. Bunting said that the Council objected to "vagueness and internal contradictions" in the constitution, citing some fifteen clauses that the Council felt needed further clarification. RUS had also asked for permanent voting student representation on the Council. Mrs. Bunting said this too was impossible because College rules said that only Radcliffe Trustees could be permanent voting members of the Council...