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...approved by a 33-6 vote at 2:30 a.m. (after an hour's harangue by the U.S.S.R.'s Andrei Gromyko, who thought the treaty merely a convenience for the "warmongering" U.S. and British press), the convention guarantees foreign correspondents free movement between signatory nations, and free access to news within them-rights they already have in all the nations likely to sign such a treaty. It forbids expulsion of newsmen for lawful newsgathering, and prohibits censorship except on national-defense matters. Under its "right of correction," a signatory country that feels a correspondent has distorted the news...
...built the National Geographic Society to a reserve fund of $10 million, mostly from the Geographic's tax-free earnings (it is classed as an educational institution). Besides the magazine, the society also publishes books, bulletins and maps, maintains a 20,000-volume library, sponsors geographic lectures and underwrites scientific expeditions. Grateful explorers have named after Grosvenor a Greenland sea shell, an Antarctic mountain range, an Alaskan lake, a Chinese plant and a Peruvian fish...
...Difference. The chief rabbi of Israel was born 60 years ago in Lomza, Poland. With his family he moved to England and completed his studies at the University of London. At 21 he was ordained. In 1925 he became chief rabbi in the Irish Free State. He was elected chief rabbi of Palestine in 1936, and there led his community of 500,000 members through Jewry's 13 most crucial and trying years since the destruction of the Temple (70 A.D.). As symbolic head of all Orthodox Jews, Dr. Herzog takes his position gravely. "I was the chief rabbi...
...Robinson had a new slogan: "The Angel's wings are clipped." To stir up business, he planned to send airplanes up over Chicago's ballparks, scattering $10 credit slips through the crowds. Elsewhere, other dealers had tried similar stunts in vain. Manhattan's Herman & Ross offered free television sets "with the next 25 cars we sell"-but sold none. Seven Dallas dealers lured 5,000 people to a joint used-car auction with a $1,000 giveaway show, but sold few cars...
Yale had only six assists, scoring an immoderate number of goals on free, bouncing balls in front of the Harvard cage. The Varsity, on the other hand, was kept buzzing around the outside of the defense periphery and scored four out of five points on long shots...