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Such measures promised only to extend a shutdown that had already lasted scandalously long. The most impressive agency actively seeking a solution to the strike was an ad hoc board with no power whatsoever. This was the Board of Public Accountability, a panel of three judges-Harold R. Medina, Joseph O'Grady, David W. Peck-appointed by U.S. Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz last week to hear witnesses from both sides. I.T.U...
...works of Sylvester Marmaduke (celebrated Aleutian Islands poet) (Vancouver, 1943?)." Next to this, Gridley noticed, was a mimeographed supplement to the British Museum's Bulletin of Printed Books. It mentioned the acquisition of the unique volume published in 1455, Asellus Hinnibundus (Whinnying Ass). Asellus begins with the words: "In hoc libro non continentur quae expectares, candide lector" (You won't find what you expect in this book, shining reader) and ends: "Nuces tibi" (Nuts to you). The fake bulletin also states that "until further notice all Scottish books printed before 1750 will be issued only to Scottish readers...
...judicial test on the constitutionality of the ban on soon. Unhappily, the first such test will probably involve the students who leave for Cuba Sunday on the free ride being offered by the Cuban Federation of University Students and the "Ad Hoc Student Committee for Travel to Cuba." There must be a test case--but it would be hard to imagine a worse one. The leader of the Ad Hoc Committee is a frank communist sympathizer, and because of the very nature of the junket, most of those who will accompany him will probably be communist sympathizers...
Harvard has a 1-1 record to date. Cooney Weiland's squad looked organized and somewhat unsure of in losing to the St. Nicholas Hoc- Club, 4-3, last Saturday. But the season displayed fine offensive power downing Colby, 7-1, Wednesday night. Particularly impressive thus far has the line of Bill Lamarche, Barry , and Baldy Smith, which score all three goals against St. Nick's and ped in two more against Colby. , a fine skater and stick handler, develop into the team's leading and playmaker...
...kind of cosmic faith in easy harmony," he writes of U.S. reactions to the idea of a high-tariff Europe; and sure enough, her is Professor Bowie seven pages earlier speaking fluidly if gravely about the "general lowering of trade barriers among the advanced nations" and "transitional and ad hoc palliatives, global commodity arrangements, etc." for those less advanced. Similar things happen to Assistant Secretary Nitze, who sounds after one has gone through Hoffmann's wringer disproportionately concerned with maintaining a "unity of command" over N.A.T.O.'s nuclear forces even when the issue may widen political rifts. And Zeckhauser...