Word: panels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that matter, all five of the Democrats on the panel had previously shared McCormack's view that Powell should hang onto his House seat pending investigation. One of them, Michigan's John Conyers Jr., a Negro, voted against an inquiry under any circumstances. The four Republican committeemen had all favored the successful move to have Powell step aside. Though the full House will have the final say on Powell's fate, the committee it will hear from is one that Powell himself might have picked...
Though Indira's responses to many of India's problems have often been weak, this time she did not cave in. She insisted that under the constitution the issue was one for the states to decide separately, but offered to set up a national panel to study the situation. But nothing has placated the Hindu extremists. Naked sadhus rampaged in the shadow of Parliament as part of the national "All Party Cow Protection Movement," and two holy men have vowed to fast to the death unless she bows to their demand. Last week, after two months of hunger...
...death" is incredible, and is presumably a misprint or a confusion between "the Gospels" and the old sources of the Gospels. (But the Resurrection narratives in the Gospels are commonly recognized as belonging to the very latest strata in them.) (3) As to the area of agreement of the panel of theologians with the lawyer-lecture's view of the "authenticity of Christ's resurrection": the distinction here between the Resurrection as historical fact and theological affirmation is confused. Assent to the Resurrection in the latter sense should not be taken to mean acceptance of the historicity of the Gospel...
...Tapering Off. A frequent commuter to Washington, Gardner served as consultant to a tureen-full of alphabetized Government agencies, won the Air Force's Exceptional Service medal, its highest civilian award, for his advisory work. As chairman of the Educational Panel of the Rockefeller Broth ers Special Studies Project, he wrote a report whose title was later to become a catch phrase of the early '60s: "The Pursuit of Excellence." He served on education task forces for Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, played a major role in drafting the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. That...
Bicker is an ordeal that you have to be prepared to take. The sophomore committee sponsors panel discussions on the morality of it, the psychology of it, the history of it. Representatives come around to all the sophomores' room with advice: "Just act yourself now. Don't panic or anything. Don't try to be anyone you really aren't. Just act yourself and everything will be all right." The talk in Commons during the weeks before is always about Bicker--getting Bicker groups together, figuring out chances...