Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jencks decision was reflected by week's end in two other cases. In a Rome (Ga.) rape trial (which came under federal jurisdiction because the alleged crime took place in a national park), the U.S. turned over to the defense presumably relevant excerpts from witnesses' pre-trial statements to the FBI. But in an Erie, Pa. antitrust action, the Government tried for much the same solution-and was ordered by the trial judge to hand over its complete reports, kit and caboodle. Result: the U.S. canceled the appearance of three FBI agents as witnesses...
...Korean War Memorial was given to David A. Norris '58, and the Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize was given to Michael A. Cooper '57. The prize goes each year to a pre-law senior of "outstanding intellect, character, and physique...
...difficulty of securing admission to graduate schools; and the competitive bidding carried on by science and industry for top graduates. These are only the more obvious forces which compelled students toward a more serious concern with academic life, although it might be argued that the concern was more pre-professional in nature than academic...
...obstructs the urge for self-renunciation. But here, rarely a laugh or cry, rarely the truly different. Walk along the river some warm evening.... very few people alone, thinking, worrying, wondering. Only the loving couples, a few retired professors on the benches, and a tired dog. See the species pre-media, the impersonal, mark-con-scious eyes and the pale, insipid faces. Peek into the Bick.... the white-sneaker crowd, sipping flat coffee with their flat conversation...
...Republican Chamber of Legislative Horrors (pre-World War II division), nothing quite brings the shivers to a veteran G.O.P. Congressman like the memory of the party vote against the fortification of Guam.* When the Japanese seized Guam, the No-voters had to start explaining, and those who survived have been explaining ever since. Last week, as the Eisenhower Administration's $38 billion defense budget came up for floor action in the House, the Republicans remembered Guam very well-but the Democrats lined themselves up in a party-line vote against the President's defense budget that might haunt...