Word: subjects
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Without advance fanfare, and with almost no audience, the U.S. Senate sparked last week to one of the most important debates on U.S. foreign policy of the 1950s. Subject at issue: the crisis of Berlin. Key debater: Connecticut's white-maned Senator Thomas John Dodd, 51, freshman Democrat making his maiden speech. Dodd aimed eloquent oratorical guns at critics who "attack our policy as too rigid and inflexible," and those who sneer at a U.S. foreign policy based on moral principles. Before he had taken his seat, he had crossed swords with such eminent senior Democratic defenders of flexibility...
...Visit and search," a peacetime euphemism for boarding alien vessels, is an old, embattled subject in international law. Britain boarded U.S. ships before the War of 1812, and the U.S. boarded vessels at various times thereafter: during the Civil War, in Prohibition days. In the South Atlantic a few months before Pearl Harbor, a party from the U.S. cruiser Omaha boarded and interned the German merchant raider Odenwald, which was masquerading under U.S. colors. The U.S. made a tentative stab at visit and search in 1954, when it asked Britain and other allies to permit U.S. Navy ships to seize...
Athletic officials, meanwhile, criticized Thompson's lack of knowledge on the subject. Mackesey said that the teacher is only seeking headlines, while McLaughry cited the character and academic records of his players...
...channel 289 involved it in a conflict with WKOX of Framingham, seeking an adjoining channel, and forced WHRB into prolonged hearings before the Communications Commission in Washington. As a result the station decided in December to apply for channel 237 instead. Approval was granted by the FCC February 5 subject to the protest period...
...included in the report, which recommended that students be permitted to substitute two full courses given by scientific departments for the required lower-level science requirements. This regulation allows either Biology 2 or Chemistry 2 to be counted as a full course, since each assumes prior knowledge of the subject. It also permits the Physics 12 a, b, c sequence to be regarded as two full courses, since these three half-courses also assume prior study in calculus...