Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...division of Baxter Laboratories. Cost: $1,300. Most important economy feature: instead of big moving parts that took hours to sterilize and set up, the core of the kidney now consists of a disposable unit of cellophane and plastic wire, not much bigger than a quart can, which comes pre-sterilized...
Died. Laurence Housman, 93, English playwright (Victoria Regina), novelist, brother of the late Poet A.E. (A Shropshire Lad) Housman, pacifist, pre-World War I woman-suffragist, satirist (The Life of H.R.H., the Duke of Flamborough); in Glastonbury, England. An icily patrician figure with dark eyebrows and a white, pointed beard, Laurence Housman described himself as "the most censored playwright in England-but the most respectable." His work was morally impeccable, but the British censor, following the letter of the law, would not allow him to present on the stage either the Holy Family (Bethlehem) or a recent monarch (prodded...
Three residents of Winthrop House have been elected to posts in the Pre-Law Society. David H. Kopelman '60 is the new President, Michael E. Hager '60, vice-President, and Norman C. Fox '60, Treasurer. Leonard Kopelman '60 was chosen Secretary...
...allow the states to enforce their own laws on subversive activity against the United States Government would, as the Supreme Court argued in the Nelson case of 1956, conflict with and duplicate Federal legislation which has pre-empted the field. The other ABA recommendations--to give the Secretary of State broad power to withhold passports from "alleged subversives," to strengthen the already too stringent Smith Act, to extend the already too wide security program, to tighten immigration laws requiring the deportation of Communists (probably unconstitutional, and at least unjust, as they stand)--similarly represent dangerous incursions upon individual political liberty...
...closest race of the afternoon, Crimson miler Jed Fitzgerald overhauled his favored opponent, Dick Healy, with 50 yards to go and finished first in 4:20.5. The varsity's Bob Downs upset pre-meet predictions to win the broad jump...