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...heavily from the ranks of those who feared many things more than creeping socialism. Among the causes the council plugged: the consumer cooperative movement, compulsory health insurance, federal aid to education. By last year, such council gospel had drawn so much Congregational counterfire (TIME, March 17, 1952) that a nine-man committee was set up to investigate it. Last week came the investigators' report...
...Western Europe so that none can be easily withdrawn for aggressive adventures of its own. This is a more complicated ambition than simple rearmament; the result is a complicated blueprint. At the top, EDC will have 1) a Council of Ministers, 2) an 87-man Assembly, 3) a nine-man Commissariat, serving as a six-nation general staff. Together, EDC and the Schuman Coal-Steel Plan will form the military and economic pillars of a still more visionary federation: the U.S. of Europe...
After the specially trained nine-man crew of artillerymen loaded her and hurried out of sight, 40-ft.-long "Amazon Annie" (also called "Atomic Annie") stood alone and silent on Nevada's Frenchman Flat. At a control point ten miles away, Atomic Energy Commission scientists got ready to turn on the remote-control firing apparatus. Then, at 8:30 one morning this week, the first atomic artillery shell ever fired whished from Amazon Annie's 280-mm. (11 in.) barrel and hurtled on its way. Above the target area, an atomic fireball blossomed, then a purplish cloud, that...
...University asked the Overseers' nine-man coordinating committee under Walter D. Edmunds '26 to investigate the difficulties and later that spring the Committee suggested including the Arboretum in the plan, and noted that the allocation of $135,000 from the Botanic Garden's sale had Supreme Judicial Court approval...
This unification of three of the most important parts of Harvard's eight scattered botanical institutions involves a major shift in University policy. It is the result of a secret report by a nine-man Botanical Co-ordinating Committee, headed by Laird Bell '04, presented to the Board of Overseers on January...