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...this vote, the Committee rejected two other proposals--having double sessions for the Houghton pupils at another school, or scattering them in classes throughout the city. Parents and teachers at the Houghton School had opposed these alternatives which, they said, would hamper the education of their children by over-burdening the facilities of Cambridge's other schools...
...government's twelve-hour curfew (7 p.m. to 7 a.m.), intended to hamper the Viet Cong terrorists, has hampered the average Saigonese even more. Having in the past moonlighted on one or two extra jobs in order to make ends meet, he now is able to hold only one job-if he is lucky enough to still have one. Because of the curtailment of working hours, there is far less economic activity. Some 20 freighters, for example, are lined up in the river waiting to be unloaded. The lack of these imports means fewer jobs, smaller pay packets. Partly...
...excommunicated"; and 3) that, in order to give the meeting even less importance, party theoreticians such as their own Mikhail Suslov, and not the top bosses, would lead the delegations. Even after getting these concessions, the Rumanians are likely to attend mostly to block any resolutions that might hamper their independence; the same is true of Czechoslovakia's new party leaders, who are showing increasing signs of a more liberal "revisionist" policy...
When it came to Moscow's plans for a world conference to embarrass the Chinese, however, Tito and Ceauseşcu flew into each other's arms. Both fear that any such Communist togetherness could result in resolutions that would hamper their independence or force them to take sides in the Sino-Soviet dispute. In an effort to reassure them, the Russians have pledged that the conference would not be "a meeting designed to excommunicate the Chinese." But Ceauseşcu has turned down the Russians' invitation to a preliminary meeting next month in Budapest that will...
Coach Henry Lamarr had his team practice outside yesterday in anticipation of field conditions at Brown. The field is cleared of snow, but is frozen. Poor traction on the hard ground will hamper the Crimson running game. The burden of the attack will fall on the passers...