Word: hatches
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...open discussion of political issues. "It is physically and symbolically the soul and the heart of the School," Associate Dean Ira Jackson '62 said. Fifty scheduled events have taken place to date, before a total audience of 10,000. Last fall's debate between gubernatorial candidates Francis W. Hatch '46 and Edward J. King was broadcast by radio. Jackson said the debate wouldn't have been possible at the School without the Forum. But he admitted that if the Forum bore the name of a partisan political group rather than a corporation, this might tarnish its impartiality in the public...
...that, three conservative Republicans made a pitch for seats on the committee, in order to be in an advantageous position to oppose SALT. Jesse Helms, Orrin Hatch and Sam Hayakawa were promptly dubbed the "Horrendous Three Hs" by distressed Democrats. Another Republican, Indiana's Richard Lugar, also asked for a place on the committee. Fearing that conservatives might control the committee, Democrats devised a different strategy. "You can't change the ratios on committees," noted Cranston. "But you can fool around with them." So the Democrats did some fooling. They reduced the size of the committee...
...spacecraft, they perform such familiar chores as setting up a TV camera, placing various scientific instruments around their landing site, and collecting rocks and samples of the dusty lunar soil. Then they return to the ship to prepare for more far-ranging exploration. When the spacecraft's big hatch reopens, the astronauts scoot out, pedaling away as if they were on bicycles...
...Taiwan's longtime friends in the Senate were furious over the rapprochement with Peking. Utah Republican Orrin Hatch contemptuously called Carter's foreign affairs advisers "loose-jointed and weak-kneed diplomats" and declared that the President should have held out for a better deal on Taiwan. Said Hatch: "All he had to do was stand fast. Mainland China needs this relationship more than the U.S. does." Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater accused Carter of having committed "one of the most cowardly" presidential acts in history and threatened to sue him in court on the questionable ground that a President cannot cancel...
...later that afternoon, assignments for patrolling the hotel halls are handed out. Harvard students will work two-hour shifts. Secretariat personnel spot flaming toilet paper flying from the hotel later that Saturday night. They are busily partying in suite #113, but will take time out to investigate. Security director Hatch confronts the sheepish perpetrators and they deny it. It doesn't really matter -- it is a relatively calm night. No more bottles and metal objects...