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Guerard confirmed last night that his course would substitute a 3000-word essay for the final exam and termed the procedure "an educationally better thing to do" at present. Guerard explained that the Faculty Committee on Educational Policy has fully discussed the new plan. The group termed it "an experiment," not a change in policy or the start of a trend...
...fire, fought on to the smoke-foul second floor, began carrying out bodies. Police lines held back parents and relatives, some standing frozen and numb, some crying hysterically. As dark fell, the watchers moved on to St. Anne's Hospital 16 blocks from the school, waited for word of dead and injured. Doctors rushed children into surgery. Nurses parted crowds to wheel beds carrying children and plasma poles. Priests moved slowly from group to group, lips moving. One man in the crowd, a truck driver, said: "I heard it on the radio. I come straight home. I told...
Early last week U.S. newspapers blossomed with cheery stories that the Soviet Union had suddenly capitulated on the big point the U.S. and Britain had been demanding from the outset, had agreed that any ban on nuclear testing must be linked to a control system. As Western spokesmen passed word that "the more realistic" approach of the Soviets had brought the conference closer to success, U.S. Delegate James T. Wadsworth tabled a draft first article "inseparably" linking the ban with the projected control organization. At week's end the conference announced that it had reached agreement on a first...
...member of the family: the Berrys would like to sell their controlling interest in the sprawling Amalgamated Press Ltd. magazine and periodical empire (72 publications). Hovering within earshot was an executive of the Daily Mirror-Sunday Pictorial group who knew big news when he heard it; he hustled the word back to the ears of his board chairman. This week, barely a month after he got the message, hulking (6 ft. 4 in.), baby-faced Cecil Harmsworth King, 57, bought control of Amalgamated for a bid in excess of $45 million, thereby became ruler of the world's most...
...specialists report on a six-year study of 27 New England patients (including the conductor). All complained of chronic chest pains; all were exhaustively studied and found free of physical heart disease. To most of them, neurotics at heart, this was not really news; they had already had this word from several doctors. Such unsatisfactory verdicts sent them to still other doctors until they got the grave diagnoses they wanted...