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Robert B. Choate, publisher of the Herald-Traveler and current owner of WHDH, said in a telephone interview Friday that "our record of public accomplishment leaves little doubt that the F.C.C. will again award us the license." To the charge that WHDH suffered from mediocrity he retorted, "Absurd. Our performance has been outstanding...
Wald Terms Quota "Absurd...
George Wald, head of Natural Sciences 5, said that allotting the same number of honor grades to each section is "absurd." He said that "each section is not a fair sample of course enrollment and consequently it is possible to have far more honor grades in one section than another...
...amended version that was more like a poaching permit than a wilderness preservation act. Colorado Democrat Wayne Aspinall, committee chairman and leader of the opposition insists that the bill would "lock up" valuable commercial tracts and jeopardize Congressional authority over Federal lands. The first charge is both pernicious and absurd; the other is merely absurd...
...persistent rumors of the coal industry's death, brought on by its own inefficiency and the threat of oil and gas. proved to be premature. Last week, as the National Coal Policy Conference met in Washington, coal company executives happily surveyed their expanding markets. It would have seemed absurd only a few years ago, but now they are expected to double their annual production by the end of the century, to 1 billion tons. The prediction was equally pleasing to another hard-pressed U.S. industry, the railroads, who have teamed up with coal in a partnership that is brightening...