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...Rhode Island Democrat John Pastore: "The question of whether we should have gone in there in the first place is subject to debate. The situation that confronts us now is not de batable. We have a commitment. Our men are engaged. The Administration, with the backing of Congress, has stated the policy. It's firm. It's fixed. It does us all well to support it unequivocally. By and large, the great majority of the Senate-with very few, very, very few exceptions-supports the President in his position...
...supreme court of the armed forces is the U.S. Court of Military Appeals in Washington. "COMA," as military lawyers call it, has three civilian judges-Chief Judge Robert E. Quinn, 71, a former state trial judge and ex-Governor of Rhode Island; Paul J. Kilday, 65, a Texan who served 22 years in Congress and helped to write the military justice code as a member of the House Armed Services Committee; and Homer Ferguson, 72, a veteran Detroit trial judge who later served two terms as Republican U.S. Senator from Michigan...
Humans First. Dental Surgeon Hodosh got the idea for implanting plastic teeth seven years ago and proposed a pilot study to authorities at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. Ordinarily such research would begin with animals, but there was no money available for such a cautious start. Dr. Hodoshen listed 25 human volunteers...
PETER H. NASH Dean, the Graduate School University of Rhode Island Kingston...
...1880s, the Vanderbilts, Astors and Oelrichses, with gold-plated silverware and shiploads of newly immigrated servants, invaded the quiet Rhode Island village of Newport, threw up enormous 50-room houses that rivaled European chateaux in size if not in taste. As more nouveaux riches arrived, Bailey's Beach became the playground for the new millionaires, private docks gave shelter to large yachts during the summer, and ladies sipped champagne under parasols while watching their white-flanneled husbands play tennis on grass courts...