Word: transfers
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Perhaps the most important consequence would be relocation of the MTA yards and shops which would follow the elimination of most of the surface lines running into Harvard Square and the transfer of terminal facilities to West Cambridge. The University has offered to help pay the cost of relocation if it can acquire the yards for its own expansion...
...occasion he flew to Brazil, found a Naval transport station sorely in need of dockage equipment. Ironically, the very equipment needed was stored only four miles away but assigned to the Rubber Development Corporation. Federal law forbade transfer to the Navy, so Cushing decided the law needed changing. He flew back to Washington, went to Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, got his backing, helped prepare the legislation, all in one stretch of 60 hours without sleep. The bill passed, but the strain proved too much. He collapsed, wound up in Bethesda Naval Hospital...
...developments in Virginia are so encouraging, however. For the Virginia legislature, urged on by Governor Almond, repealed the compulsory-attendance statute and earmarked three million dollars in scholarship aid for any parents who wished to transfer their students to private schools. Such a provision, though clearly different from Faubus' attempt to convert the public school system into a private school establishment, is nevertheless reproachable. The Arkansas scheme was struck down as a clear attempt to evade the desegregation of the Little Rock public schools; presumably the Supreme Court, in a broad interpretation, could rule similarly in the Virginia case...
Jordan asserted further that Radcliffe "should encourage applications for admission by transfer of serious students, of demonstrated academic attainments." Estimating that "fully 10 per cent of the places in this College belong as of academic right to such mature applicants," Jordan criticized the College's present indefensible policy" of admitting fewer than one per cent of the total undergraduate enrollment on such status...
...transfer of Algerian Rebel Leader Mohammed ben Bella and four of his colleagues from Paris' Santé prison to more comfortable quarters in a military fortress. Henceforth, the five rebel leaders (whom the French kidnaped off a Moroccan plane in 1956) will have the honorable status of military prisoners. ¶The release of 7,000 Algerians from political detention camps. ¶ The commutation to life imprisonment of all death sentences (198) hanging over members of the rebel F.L.N...