Word: wood
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...comprising five major sub-agencies that have not always worked together-or with Weaver. Under the new law, the Housing and Urban Development Secretary gets authority to bring his subordinate offices into line. Weaver's responsibilities will doubtless grow fast. A presidential committee headed by Dr. Robert C. Wood, 42, chairman of M.I.T.'s political-science department, has reported to the President on what additional functions-such as air pollution control-HUD should acquire. Which of the still-secret proposals Johnson will adopt for recommendation to Congress is as yet uncertain. In any case, Weaver will have every...
...couldn't select one all-time great football player, but quickly butted out the names of Ben Ticknor '31. All-American center. Barry Wood '32. All-American quarterback, and Dick Clasby '54 as men to be reckoned with...
...tutors apparently underestimated the strength of the senior faculty's commitment to the thesis as an educational instrument. "The senior faculty feels very strongly that the thesis is the backbone of the entire program," said one tutor. The thesis is invaluable as "a pedagogical tool," said Gordon S. Wood, the Department's assistant senior tutor, which "gives the student the best understanding of the nature of history that he will get in four years here." The senior seminar would have bypassed the thesis, and there were also financial difficulties in setting up a large seminar program...
...Quinn centers the second B.U. line, for Mike Sobeski and Jim Wood. Quinn has the unusual distinction of having scored three times this year with his team shorthanded. He could add to that mark against a Harvard power play which has often looked weak this season...
...strangled by the umbilical cord," she says. "Maybe that is why I have such good lung power." It is why she was christened Montserrat. Her mother, fearing for the life of her black-faced baby, prayed to the Virgin of the nearby monastery of Montserrat, a statue sculpted in wood that has become so darkened by age and candle smoke fhat it is known as the Black Virgin. Daughter of an industrial chemist, Caballé was enrolled in Barcelona's Conservatorio del Liceo at nine, worked as a seamstress to pay for her tuition, graduated at 23 with every...