Word: statements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majority, the decision was prefaced by a heated, and at times chaotic, discussion. Half of the two-hour meeting was devoted to a disagreement over whether or not a quorum was present. Those who wished to state that a quorum existed were opposed by those who declared the statement invalid because of a lack of a quorum...
...contradicts this statement later in his letter, however, by noting, "I am in sympathy with White Citizens' Councils." His avowed purpose is "to promote segregation among serious-thinking students," and he calls John Kasper, ardent racial agitator, "a great American patriot...
...Startle the World." With the West Irian question soon up for debate at the U.N., the Dutch fortified their case by issuing a joint statement with Australia pledging their governments to cooperate in the administration of their territories on the huge island of New Guinea, "to promote an uninterrupted development" toward self-determination. Warned Sukarno darkly: "If the United Nations fails us we will resort to methods which will startle the world...
...radio transmitter of Sputnik 1 worked for three weeks, but the transmitter of Sputnik II went silent after seven days. Astronomer John Shakeshaft of Cambridge, England watched it pass overhead but got no radio signal. This might mean that the apparatus had broken down, but a statement by the Russians that they had completed their observations hinted that the stoppage was intended...
Complete with a picture of the victim and a strong statement from the police chief, the parody convinced many alumni. Most undergraduates nervously laughed the edition off as a Yale hoax. But at 1 p.m. they were somewhat shocked by 8,000 editions of the Daily Princetonian, which corroborated the messy details and added a few more...