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...commission be dissolved in 30 days unless all of its members were appointed by the President, instead of just two under the present stat ute. The other six are four members appointed by Congress, plus the Secretary of the Senate and the clerk of the House. There was the rub. According to the court, Congress may not appoint a body with enforcement powers; only the Executive can set up such a commission. A number of Senators, including Edward Kennedy, quickly said that they would introduce bills this week to conform to the ruling and preserve the commission's watchdog...
...Sexual Freedom and the Constitution: "It is easy to stand up for the right of a black as a human being, but hard to side with a 'queer.' No matter how closely the white civil rights enthusiast tries to identify with the plight of the Negro, blackness can never rub off on him. The aura of 'immorality...
...faculty members. It is one of the few places where students can become acquainted with some of the administrators and professors who really do run Harvard. That is another reason why the CHUL can be considered to be a big-time committee. Although student members have little power, they rub shoulders with a few people...
...quite specifically, Harvard role models. There's not a single "failure" or malcontent among them. Harvard is proud of every one. Most of them were undergraduates here, and are eagerly pursuing careers as Harvard administrators, Harvard academes, and Harvard-trained lawyers and businessmen. Their enthusiasm is likely to rub off on 18 and 19 year olds who were never so confused in their lives...
...treasured the oil they pressed from the beans of the wild jojoba shrub. In Arizona and California the jojoba (pronounced ho-ho-bah) oil was used as a nostrum for almost every ill: to ease childbirth, as a remedy for cancer, even as a laxative. Spanish colonists liked to rub the waxy, colorless oil on their mustaches. Last week a panel of National Research Council scientists reported that the jojoba bean may also be a panacea for the endangered sperm whale...