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...those professors interviewed yesterday had at least a few kind words for Kennedy, who as an undergraduate here lived in Weld Hall and Winthrop House, played football, was member of the Spec Club, and was a business editor of The Crimson...
Race Relations Committee Alumni Reunion Coordinator Spec. Asst. Kennedy School Dedication...
...been dealt a heavy blow by none other than their biggest customer, General Motors, which last year bought 15 million tires as original equipment. GM now is giving many drivers of its cars the idea that they do not need snow tires at all. GM claims that the TPC-Spec steel-belted radial tires that are now attached to all newly built GM cars "are designed for year-round traction performance." Tests conducted by GM indicate that on loose or soft-packed snow, the radials provide 73% to 96% as much driving traction as snow tires; on hard-packed snow...
...person of Hebrew race; an Israelite." He does, however, object to the second: "As a name of opprobrium or reprobation; spec. applied to a grasping or extortionate moneylender or usurer, or a trader who drives hard bargains or deals craftily." Acting as his own lawyer, Shloimovitz will ask the court to force the O.E.D. to delete definition No. 2 from all future printings...
From such mind-boggling ideas it is a short leap to wilder spec ulations. The overwhelming majority of scientists would probably agree with Mathematician Martin Gardner that "modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses." Says Harvard's Owen Gingerich, who is an astronomer as well as a historian of science: "There might be noncausal things in the world." He adds that it is only people with tunnel vision who "think our science will go on in a lineal, explanatory fash...