Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the time came for the vote, the M.P.s were released from party discipline to cast their ballots in accordance with their consciences. The result was a surprise setback for the party leaders: by 143 to 112, the M.P.s voted to retain the death penalty. Solicitor General Larry Fennel wept openly. It is now his task to review the cases of men under sentence of death, and to recommend who should live and who be executed...
...Radcliffe Government Association has decided that each Radcliffe House may retain a number of sit-down meals a week, although beginning next fall almost all of the meals will be served buffet style. The exact number of sit-down meals and other details of the new eating arrangements will be determined this spring by committees to be set up in each House...
...oppose the nation's draft seem intent on making a public display of their protest. So far, the public has been remarkably forbearing of their demonstrations, but last week the Vietniks picked the wrong place to stage a protest: South Boston. There, the predominantly Irish inhabitants not only retain a good bit of the rough and tumble of their immigrant ancestors but take most unkindly to unpatriotic displays. Trouble was in the air as eleven Viet Nam demonstrators reached the steps of the South Boston courthouse, where two of them calmly burned their draft cards and two others...
Some 1,750,000 college men got the word last week from the Selective Service System on how they can retain their coveted 2-S draft deferments-and Director Lewis B. Hershey made it sound easy. If they choose to take standard college qualification tests to be offered by Selective Service in May and June, undergraduates need only score 70 out of a possible 100. If they fail or shun the tests, freshmen must rank in the top half of the men in their class, sophomores in the top two-thirds, juniors in the top three-fourths. Graduate students must...
...will be living in the city. Parry is especially fond of the rural life--his favorite non-academic pastimes are sailing, fishing, and bird-watching--and he admits that "the saddest thing about leaving Wales was losing that salmon stream that flowed by my doorstep." He will, however, retain his house in Harvard, Mass., about 30 miles west of Cambridge, and continue to spend vacations, summers, and some weekends there...