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National Assembly to decide between independence and federation with Ethiopia. Foreign Minister Ato Abte-Wold Aklilou, Haile Selassie's spokesman, insisted that Eritrea belonged to their country, was Ethiopia's rightful window on the sea. Fourteen other nations, including the U.S., moved that Eritrea be given home rule within a great Ethiopia. The committee approved the resolution, dispatched it to the full Assembly...
...differences between the present student rights of initiative and amendment and those which existed prior to 1936 show a remarkable gain in student democracy; fourteen years ago no students (except council members) possessed these privileges...
Halfback Bagnell completed 20 out of 29 passes for 276 yds. Fourteen of the completions came in a row, to break an old record (ten in a row) set by Cornell's Lynn Dorset in 1947. In 18 carries he ripped through Dartmouth for 214 yds. Total Bagnell yardage: 490 (out of Penn's 590 for the day), to break the alltime individual yardage record (458 yds.) set by Indiana University's All-America Bob Hoernschemeyer against Nebraska in 1943. Penn...
Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Poetry, will start the fourth year of courses with the first of the fourteen lectures...
...discloses that this indeed may have happened this year. A somewhat critical report on an unusually able young member of the faculty was submitted on the basis of questionnaires completed by less than half the members of his course. Among the missing were thirteen out of a total of fourteen "A" students, whose reports might have altered the report's entire tone. This sort of bias, of course, can work in both ways. A course with which I was associated received gratifying high praise. Those teaching it would be only to happy to believe that the Guide's hosannas were...