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...floor, Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse was livid. "We are reaching one of the most serious crises in U.S.Latin American relations in a quarter of a century," he cried. "We are either going to support constitutional government, or we are going to lose any following that we can hope to obtain by throwing billions of dollars into Latin America." Alaska Democrat Ernest Gruening angrily suggested canceling all military aid (some $700 million since World War II) to prevent its use as "an instrument for the overthrow of established democracies...
Some opposition to the MDC's plans is developing in Cambridge, based mainly on the threat to the sycamores. State Sen. Francis X. McCann (D-Cambridge) pointed out, however, that residents would have to obtain an amendment to his bill directing the MDC to build the under-passes. Gov. Peabody signed that into law in June...
...insure adherence to its statement of policy, the University gives each department the power to appoint a committee which "shall have power to require that the investigator obtain approval from. . .Environmental Health and Safety, before going ahead to recruit subjects for his research." To date only the Social Relations Department has such a committee, and it was formed before the Corporation directive was issued...
Though one of the Nagare trademarks is a smooth finish, he leaves a link with nature in his sculpture. His technique is called ware hada, or broken texture, whereby some surfaces retain the original texture of the raw rock as it broke naturally in the mountains. When he cannot obtain it, he drills holes, fills them with water, and puts the stones outdoors in freezing weather to split by themselves. This textural contrast is vital to Nagare: "You have to have male and female. Like anything else under the sun, you have to have light and shadow, movement and stillness...
...Liberation Army-now 2,600,000 strong-is by far the most impressive product of Red China, but there is evidence of dissatisfaction at the top and bottom of the army. Among the generals, those having a guerrilla mentality conflict with the professionals, who argue that to obtain the supplies needed by a modern army, China must cooperate closely with the Soviet Union. Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai, leading spokesman for the professionals, was dismissed from his post in 1959, but remains a member...