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Gary Bennett, a third-year graduate student at M.I.T. and a member of the ad hoc committee which has been formed to handle the increased number of volunteers, said yesterday that the committee expects to send 75 people by the end of the week. Several of the groups' volunteers have left already...
Despite their enthusiasm, the group, which called itself the ad hoc committee on the Inner Belt, did not provoke unqualified support in city government circles. There were good reasons for low-key response. The ad hoc committee had challenged the City Council's long-established strategy against the highway: that is, the Council was opposed to an Inner Belt anywhere and was not going to give its stamp of approval (qualified or not) to the highway by favoring one route over another. And not only this: the new committee was also challenging, though probably ambiguously and somewhat unintentionally, the Council...
Being a Vietnamese, my basic education has been directed under these four most important laws: "hoc an, hoc noi, hoc goi, hoc mo," which means that I am supposed to learn to eat, to learn how to say things, to learn how to wrap up the things I have to say, and to learn to open up the things that others have wrapped...
...position takes Greep from the administrator's office and back to an area of research he has long been interested in. He has been involved in planning of the center for the past three years, heading the ad hoc committee in charge. It was known for a long time among top officials of the project that he would be its first director...
...open season on NBC's Tonight show continued, but Johnny Carson was not perceptibly pinked. ABC had already taken a pot shot with Joey Bishop (TIME, April 28). And last week, a new ad hoc hookup, the United Network, took aim with a cap pistol called the Las Vegas Show...