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...help. His desperate pleas for a battlefield truce to save Dienbienphu's wounded met with bland delay from the Communists. Behind him, France's divided government nagged at him. Burly Marc Jacquet, Minister for the Associated States, sent to Geneva to act as a kind of watchdog for the quick-truce faction, told everybody who would listen: "We must get peace!" For two days Bidault had to mark time while the Assembly debated a vote of confidence. "A Foreign Minister does not negotiate while his policy is being debated behind his back," he snapped to Premier Laniel...
...said that he had intended to run the review without Hopkinson's byline, but it was mistakenly left on. Hopkinson took his complaint to Britain's year-old but already moribund Press Council, a group of 25 newsmen and publishers who are supposed to act as "watchdogs" of the British press. Last week, for the first time, the watchdog stood up and really...
...room, so that he can continue to receive oxygen and intravenous infusions while on his way to the recovery room. To relieve pain after he regains consciousness, he gets meperidine. (But not enough to relieve all pain because, says Dr. Sadove. that would also eliminate the cough reflex, "the watchdog and clean-up man of the chest.") Oxygen is usually discontinued within a couple of days. With that, the anesthesiologist's task is about done...
While the MIA and WIA serve certain social purposes, the most important student organization is the Campus Affairs Committee. Composed of student leaders and faculty members, the CAC serves as a college watchdog, allotting funds to organizations, recognizing new clubs, and determining policy for all social affairs and activities. All dates on the social calendar must be cleared through the CAB, while the group even has a little used but important vote power over the Student Council. The Council handles all class elections for the College, and sets up committees for the CAC. None of Ohio's activities...
Your new-look Business section rates a pay boost, "Time Clock's" short, punchy capsules being beautifully attuned to the businessman's cadence. However, that old mechanical watchdog-the factory time clock-is regarded by millions of Americans as an annoying and anachronistic regimentation. When 14 of them here were unceremoniously junked in favor of an employee honor system, employees and onlookers all over America stood up and cheered...