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...average American, liver is for wurst. But to 47.6 million Frenchmen, le foie - when it is not gras - is the precious, pesky organ that regulates their lives. When a Frenchman exclaims, "Mon foie!", his cry from the gland wins instant sympathy, even in a Place de la Concorde traffic jam. Depending on whether it is swollen, too hard, too tender, congested, enrheumed or, as the French say, "intoxicated" from a surfeit of rich food, the liver is blamed for virtually every physical malfunction from ingrown toenails to inadequate amatory performance...
More than 1000 students will jam M.I.T.'s gymnasium at 6:30 this evening, and the occasion is not a lecture on cybernetics--it's a pep rally...
...clock jam-up in the Houses has been one of the chief dining hall problems this year," commented Sanford J. Ungar '66, chairman of the HCUA group. Ungar said that opening the Union for the short period before noon should allow many upperclassmen to attend noon classes without being delayed in the 1 o'clock lines...
...history of pat refusals to negotiate within the bounds of the reports of impartial commissions suggests that once again the thorny question will be thrown into Congress. Not only would this weaken public confidence in collective bargaining, but in a year of vital political importance, the railroad dispute would jam up legislation left over from this session...
...shoots faster and is less likely to jam than the U.S. Army's standard rifle, the M-14. Though its firing range is not as great, it is smaller and lighter (6.4 Ibs. v. 8.7 Ibs.) than the M-14, a fact that makes it ideal for guerrilla-type fighting and more practicable for the U.S.'s small-statured Asian allies, who find standard U.S. rifles too big to handle. Most of the 104,000 M-16s that Colt will make under the new contract will be shipped to U.S. airborne divisions and Special Forces. If the rifle...