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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Select Committee on Assassinations was established last fall by the House of Representatives to make a fresh study of the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Despite a seemingly endless series of investigations, rumors, dark suspicions and public doubts persist about who actually shot Kennedy and King. Just last month a Gallup poll showed that 80% of the American people believe that both assassinations were conspiracies; some think the Mafia, the CIA, Cubans or other Communists killed Kennedy. Thus when retired Virginia Congressman Thomas Downing proposed that the assassinations be examined yet again, the House approved...
...million was mentioned. Then Sprague began talking about $5 million, and some Congressmen began to get fidgety; eventually most concluded that such a sum was not really unreasonable for so intricate an investigation. Finally, last month, Sprague proposed $6.5 million-for just the first year-and the House Select Committee gulped. Nonetheless the committee unanimously approved the outlay, and the full House is expected to do so this month...
...takes even stranger forms. Boston Political Journalist Richard Gaines will be one of the few on the telephone during the game. (Long-distance calls dropped 50% in Pittsburgh last year while the Steelers beat the Dallas Cowboys.) Gaines watches the contest alone, but exchanges opinions via phone with a select coterie of fellow Super Bowl junkies. Says Gaines: "I always know exactly what plays will make the phone ring and who will be on the line." His Super Bowl record: all three hours on long distance...
...want to stay with friends. Freshmen would be allowed to transfer Houses at the end of the year. Minorities and other groups would be evenly distributed. And, in what would be a minor throwback to the days before the random choice system currently used, masters would be allowed to select a limited number of students for their Houses...
...report recommends that there be "intense discussion" to determine the importance of such factors as students' secondary school education and geographical origin in House selection. A system allowing limited master's choice--where masters could select some students for their Houses--would be established...