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Pivot of the turnabout was Arkansas' hardworking, international-minded Brooks Hays, whose plight showed how personal pressures and preoccupations can affect the voting of even a highly conscientious legislator. Hays had been so busy with the unfamiliar duties and responsibilities of his new post as lay president of the Southern Baptist Convention that he could find little time to do his homework on the new foreign-aid program. On the committee's first go-round, he instinctively voted against a sharp departure from Congress' customary practice of year-to-year authorizations for foreign aid. But Hays felt...
...places. Its surface is covered with rapidly moving fluids. Its atmosphere swirls with big and little storms. Its oceans are stirred by currents. Its solid crust shakes like jelly, and its plastic interior probably flows slowly in largely unknown ways. Influence? from the sun and beyond the sun affect the passive earth. Cosmic rays from the depths of space beat upon it, and meteors plunge like fireflies into its atmosphere. Its magnetic field fluctuates slightly; so does its gravitation. Scientists are sure that all these changes and influences are interconnected in intricate ways, but no one knows just how, because...
...increases-which amount to only $11.58 on a $3,000 car, 66? on a $300 refrigerator-rather than raise prices; others may delay price increases for many months. A spokesman for one of the big three automakers said, for example, that he did not expect the steel increase to affect the price of 1958 models (though labor and other costs may raise the price...
...announced last week that with the help of ten men it would try to find some answers. The ten consultants will meet several times a year, direct and discuss research into how various modern institutions-e.g., the labor union, the giant corporation, mass communications and private pressure groups-affect the workings of freedom and justice...
...last to deny the legitimacy of this claim, but he challenges the statement that Harvard must lower its quality in order to expand a moderate amount. This is inded the crucial point of contention between the opposing faction: how would a 20 per cent increase in enrollment affect Harvard and the education it offers...