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Exam time gives the con man his last chance-and perhaps the best instructions on how to seize it came from David Littlejohn, who last year was a Harvard teaching fellow, and is now an assistant professor of English at Stanford. Littlejohn set out to rebut an annual Harvard Crimson piece on how to fool the grader on exams by "use of the vague generality, the artful equivocation, and the overpowering assumption...
Howe's rejection, one of six by Boston-area professors, has left WGBH without anyone to rebut Wallace. Robert L. Larsen, the station's program manager, said yesterday that if the station did not succeed in lining up an opposition speaker this morning, the program would "very likely" be canceled...
...bill he presented then has not reached the floor of either House, and there is little evidence that any more progress will be made before a few more months have elapsed. Civil rights, and a host of other important problems, offered the 88th Congress a splendid chance to rebut the charges that America's legislature is no longer a fit place for the transaction of America's business. But as bill after bill has become mired in committees and in subcommittees, in party wrangling or in intra-party politics, Congress has missed its chance...
...already created new jobs and wealth in an economy whose primary product, beef for Britain, has been the same for as long as there have been potatoes to go with it. As new opportunity at home lowers the perilously high emigration rate, the government is finally beginning to rebut the bitter quip that Ireland is "a home for men rather than a breeding ground for emigrants and bullocks." The country's rapturous huzzas for John Kennedy were more than an expression of pride in a Gael made good -to many young Irishmen, he seems more real than the Irish...
...sooner had Republican National Committee Chairman William Miller proposed that the G.O.P. issue a policy statement to rebut President Kennedy's State of the Union message than the party's congressional floor leaders. Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen and Indiana Representative Charles Halleck, vetoed the idea. That left Dirksen and Halleck, who appear on television weekly in what has come to be known as "The Ev and Charlie Show," as the most visible, audible enunciators of Republican policy in Washington...