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...amidst this circus of an open meeting, House Bill 4632 did receive an airing and won substantial support. The bill was submitted to the House in late january in response to State Atty. Gen. Francis X. Bellotti's suggestion that perhaps a blue ribbon panel should be set up to look into the entire MBM-UMass contract...
Reps. Andrew Card and Phillip Johnston subsequently co-authored H4632, the bill which enlarges on Bellotti's suggestion. The bill as drafted proposes the establishment of a Blue Ribbon Commission to investigate not only the MBM-UMass contract, but, in the bill's language, "the existence and extent of corrupt practices concerning contracts related to the construction of state and country buildings from January 1, 1969, to the present...
DIED. Henry Merritt Wriston, 88, president of Brown University (1937-55) and blue-ribbon Government panelist; in Manhattan. At Brown, Wriston established a reputation as an iconoclast, de-emphasizing survey courses and attracting top professors and freeing them of administrative tasks. Describing himself as "a perpetually dissatisfied Republican," Wriston defended academic freedom from assaults by the House Un-American Activities Committee as vigorously as he opposed the New Deal. In 1954 he headed John Foster Dulles' committee for the reorganization of the diplomatic service, and in 1960 he directed the President's Commission on National Goals, an ambitious...
...Lawrence?frozen solid or clogged with ice floes for nearly five months a year?is the lifeline of Quebec: a rugged land of 594,860 sq. mi., bigger than France and Spain combined. As in the rest of Canada, most of the province's population huddles along a narrow ribbon in the south; the vast majority of Quebecois live within 50 miles of the St. Lawrence, and 82% live within 200 miles of Montreal (pop. 2,758,780). Quebec is rich in iron, copper, zinc and timber, and produces 80% of the non-Communist world's asbestos. Its 450 rivers...
...revisions in the National Book Awards so that every entrant would win something: "There would be awards for The Best Biography of a Man Born on June 2, 1898; and for The Best Novel Titled Love Story. The Best Likeness on a Dust-Jacket Photograph would win a blue ribbon, and so would The Best Job of Spelling...