Word: sponsors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the deciding vote on the resolution, debate resumed. Michael Hornblow '62, sponsor of the motion, asked for a recess to regroup his forces. When the meeting re-opened, a quorum was called since much of the large crowd had left. The first count was 19, the minimum needed to do business. Phillips asked for another call, however, and when only 18 members answered he declared the meeting adjourned...
Sometimes a little too cute?Walter is the children's "alternate sponsor"?Jean Kerr is also overly fond of using the language of television commercials. But she is wary of puns and uses them with care?"Idle roomers beget idle rumors"?preferring to play on people rather than words. For she is a devastating parodist, whether in a single line about "The Confessions of St. Augustine, as told to Gerold Frank," or in the full-sized parodies of Vladimir Nabokov ("To watch Lolita sit at the kitchen table and play jacks was to know what Aristotle meant...
...American University for a Peace Corps conference called by the National Student Association and heard Peace Corps Boss Sargent Shriver warn: "This will not be a moonlight cruise on the Amazon or a pleasure vacation in Kashmir.'' Added Wisconsin's Congressman Henry S. Reuss, a sponsor of a youth corps bill: "You can expect freezing cold and burning heat, mud when it rains and dust when it doesn't, fleas and dysentery...
...Substitutes. One of the massiest satisfiers was ABC's high-flying The Untouchables, a gore-laden drama based only loosely on the exploits of Eliot Ness, a Prohibition era G-man, and specializing in novel ways to kill pretty women. Fortnight ago, the show's cigarette company sponsor quit when its products were boycotted by sensitive Italian-Americans-but The Untouchables is so hot that ABC had drooling substitute sponsors waiting in line...
...original sponsor of the Peace Corps legislation in the Senate, Humphrey warned the delegates that this would be a typical United States program--"imperfect." Americans will have to expect mistakes, but for every person who comes back converted to communism there will be a thousand who will do their assignments sucessfully, Humphrey said...