Word: informativeness
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President Eisenhower yesterday named to his Science Advisory Committee Harvey Brooks, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and Dean of Engineering and Applied Physics. According to the Associated Press, Brooks was among six noted educators from across the country picked by the President to inform him on problems requiring technical scientific knowledge...
...Committee for the Repeal of 1001 (f), as the group will be known, was organized partially in response to statements from congressmen claiming a lack of any students interest in the issue. An office set up by the committee will inform students how their Congressmen voted and urge letter-writing to correct the impression of apathy...
...reasonably faithful to the general's stirring "Tale of the Christ." Prince Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston), a rich Jew born about the same time as Christ, falls out with his childhood friend Messala (Stephen Boyd), commander of the Roman garrison in Jerusalem, who demands that Ben-Hur inform against other Jewish patriots. When Ben-Hur refuses, Messala condemns him to certain death as a galley slave and shuts up his mother (Martha Scott) and sister (Cathy O'Donnell) in a pestilential dungeon. Ben-Hur is freed from the galley, taken to Rome and adopted by a Roman...
...nine volume study dealt with changes in the internal structure of New York; others will deal with the city's relation to changes occurring in the nation and the world. Next fall, Vernon's summary of the survey's findings, Metropolls 1985, will appear. "Our function is simply to inform," Vernon said. "We have found certain advantages in keeping normative notions out of our work...
...Divinity School Student Association is sponsoring Uphaus' talk, which will begin at 4 p.m. in the Braun Room, at Andover Hall. Uphaus will discuss the topic "Reluctance to inform--a case for civil liberties...