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...committees to cover house operating expense, i.e., make up for cut back funds. This proposed financial solution places an intolerable burden on the individual committees which are already on the verge of financial collapse. Without the full faculty subsidy those allegedly professional committees within PBH which do enjoy a modicum of success will cease to function. Next June when the members of the Class of 1946 saunter towards the Union in their tuxedos on their way to the Reunion Concert at Symphony Hall and confront Riverside residents and their children protesting in the Yard, they will ask 'what...
...RAID LAUNCHED NOW? New York Post Columnist Pete Hamill sarcastically suggested that it might have been staged in order to get the Son Tay prisoners home for display at the White House on Thanksgiving. There may be a modicum of truth in that, but a major factor in President Nixon's mind was his recent conclusion?supported by Pentagon doctors and specialists consulted by the Administration ?that lengthy confinement under difficult conditions has cost the lives of a number of American prisoners in both North and South Viet Nam. A recent list had marked as dead six Americans whose...
...York City girl who defiled Henry Adams' quarters in Holworthy 5, confessed to a modicum of curiosity about the previous occupants. "I sort of started wondering," she observed, "when I went into the bathroom and saw the urinals...
...modicum of the hormone lands on the eggs or late larvae, the eggs fail to hatch and the larvae die without reproducing...
Several seconds before totality, a few pinpoints of sunlight will remain along the moon's edge, as lunar valleys allow the last modicum of sunlight to pass through. This phenomenon is generally called Baily's Beads, although astronomers here claim that a Harvard professor noticed the beads some 56 years before Baily...