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...Revolution brought on a spate of flags, the best known of which, the Grand Union Flag, was raised above Washington's troops at Cambridge on Jan. 1, 1776. It had 13 red and white stripes and the British Union Jack in its canton. At sea, American Commodore Esek Hopkins flew a jack of 13 stripes and a rattlesnake. After the signing of the Declaration of Independence, there was no longer need for a canton symbol of union with Great Britain, and with the congressional resolution of June 14, 1777, stars were substituted for the crosses of St. George...
...Independent, a non-partisan newsletter, ticked him off in an imaginary interview. Sample: "Q". 'They say that you jump too easily / From the Donkey's back to the G.O.P./ Would you care to comment, Mr. T.?' A, 'I'm for only one party / A grand old party / And that grand old party...
Suspected Agent. More cautious was the University of Michigan's Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., grand evaluator of the 1954 Salk vaccine trials. He warned against indiscriminately beginning vaccination programs (i.e., giving the first of two shots) until the return of cold weather. Local health officers, he said, must weigh the risk of provoking polio against the number of cases they hope to prevent...
...Federal Grand Jury in Washington indicted Singer, a former Harvard instructor, on November 22 on charges of contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee about his associates in a wartime Marxist study group in Cambridge...
Congress voted a contempt citation against him in May of last year, but Cornell took no action in the case until the Grand Jury returned its indictment. The University then placed him on salaried leave pending the disposition of the charges and removed him from the courses he was then teaching. Cornell has permitted him to continue to use its laboratories for his research activities under a grant from the American Cancer Society...