Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...center's activities have been unqualified triumphs. Citron still blushes over Report No. 452: based on a U.P.I. dispatch, it said that a weird, 35-ton sea monster, possibly a survivor from the age of dinosaurs, had washed ashore at Tecolutla, Mexico. A few days later the center conceded that the "living fossil" was an ordinary whale...
...says with elaborate politeness to Captain Bules Martin (Michael Hordern), the master of the house and a sometime surgeon. "I am the traveling BBC announcer, and here was the news." He squats in the mire, framed by a gutted television set, and begins to speak: "I am happy to report that after the recent nuclear misunderstanding, peace has finally been restored. This, we are proud to say, was the shortest war in the history of the world. It took two minutes and 28 seconds, including the signing of the treaty." After the broadcast, the surgeon casually inquires of a patient...
...Fainsod Committee released today its long-awaited report on University decision-making and the role students should play...
They examine the duty scientist's report, a photograph of the sun taken that morning from the roof of the Observatory building, and a forecast of the sun's activity from the federal Environmental Science Services Administration. They then determine the most promising wave-lengths and sections of the sun to observe during the next day. The duty scientist sends these instructions to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center near Washington, D.C., which then transmits the instructions to the satellite via a convenient tracking station...
...Committee-chaired by Merle Fainsod, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor-began meeting last February after the Faculty set it up in the wake of last December's anti-ROTC sit-in at Paine Hall. The Faculty will consider its report at a special meeting on October...