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...settle the matter, Graduate School Dean Lincoln Moses asked the advice of a five-man faculty committee, including experts in biology, physiology, psychology, statistics and communications. After much agonizing over both Shockley's qualifications and his views-which one committeeman called "essentially genocidal [and] abhorrent to all decent people"-a majority of 3-2 urged that he be permitted to teach his course for only one quarter and without credit...
...June, when a Government-imposed cooling-off period expires. Seventy-year-old work rules force railroads to pay train crews a full day's wages for every 100 miles traveled -a distance that the fastest diesel locomotives cover in two hours. Some states require trains to carry "full" five-man crews. Says Alan Boyd, former Transportation Secretary and now head of the Illinois Central: "We know we can run a safe train with...
...year mayor is even more demanding than one might suppose. A freshman at nearby Emmetsburg Community College, Mayor Smith drives a 24-mile school bus route twice daily, before and after commuting to school. On days when he is busy studying or meeting with the five-man town council, he turns the bus chores over to Brother Len-who presumably picks up enough extra change thereby to pay his beer fines...
...never to his face. He was too mean. Joey took pleasure in breaking the arm of one of his clients who was sluggish about paying protection money. He punctured an enemy with ice picks. He had gained his status by serving as one member (Colombo was another) of a five-man execution squad of Mafia Boss Joe Profaci in the late '50s. Police claim they had scored 40 hits. By then he and his brothers had carved out a chunk of the Brooklyn rackets; they turned against Profaci, touching off a gang war in which nine mobsters died...
Harvard's varsity racquetmen played well Saturday in the United States Squash Racquet Association's national championships in Detroit, but national amateur competition proved too much for' the Crimson collegiate squad. Both Crimson number one, Peter Briggs, and the Harvard five-man squad were eliminated in the second round of competition by formidable opponents...