Word: confirmed
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There is little likelihood that the Senate will refuse to confirm Hickel when it interrogates him. In U.S. history, only eight Cabinet nominees have been turned down, and Senators have never rejected an incoming President's first choices. Still, Hickel can look forward to some heat. "It'll be good for him," said a member of Nixon's staff. "The trouble with Wally," said another Nixon man, "is that he's never thought about a thing but Alaska." If nothing more, the Senate's hearings should considerably expand Hickel's perspectives...
...Harvard students as well as 60 per cent of the Cliffies said they were willing to pack their bags and move next term. The crowds that gather for lunch every day at Lehman Hall and the huge number of Harvard students who make the trek to Hilles each night confirm just how eager students here are for informal coeducational contacts...
...good reason for wanting to clear Christ's name. Brandon carefully avoids saying that Jesus was a Zealot himself, but cites evidence suggesting that he was sympathetic to their cause. Mark, he notes, obscured the fact that one of the Apostles-Simon the Zealot, as later Evangelists confirm-was an admitted member of the movement. And he argues further that Judas Iscariot may have been a Zealot as well. The two "thieves" who were crucified along with Jesus were, as the original Greek attests, really "brigands"-a common epithet for the Zealots. Even the Gospels hint that...
...years about the effects of marijuana on its users. It therefore came as a surprise last week when a team of Harvard and Boston University investigators reported that they had just conducted the first truly scientific tests ever made on the subject. Their findings, which appear in Science magazine, confirm some popular ideas about marijuana's effects and expose others as completely false. The drug, the investigators concluded, "appears to be a relatively mild intoxicant, with minor, real, shortlived effects." It seems to have a greater effect on thinking and perception than on reflexes and coordination...
...that they can spot a pothead by the dilation of his pupils. Not so, say the researchers. Or if so, the cause is not marijuana but the fact that potheads have done their smoking in dimly lit rooms, where the pupils naturally dilate. The tests also failed to confirm an assumption that pot causes an increase in appetite by lowering the level of blood sugar. The subjects showed no changes in blood sugar, so why marijuana smokers get so hungry remains a mystery...