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...other hand, the lawyer for Delaware declared that Congress never intended that the Amendment should affect public school segregation, asserting that the use of the Amendment to abolish segregation in schools would be to give it a meaning "directly contrary to that given by its framers." As support for this belief, he pointed out that a majority of the congressmen in 1868, when the Amendment was passed, were from states that favored segregation and they would never have agreed to submit the Amendment if they had believed it would invalidate segregation...
...reasons for all the hand trouble, report Drs. Richard L. Sutton Jr. and Samuel Ayres Jr. The hands are more exposed to heat, cold, light, moisture, irritant chemicals, sensitizing chemicals and germs than any other part of the body. Moreover, an infection or poisoning of the whole body may affect the hands with especial severity. Finally, because they are the most used organs of touch, they are subject to psychosomatic disturbances. ("The hands are busy if the mind is busy . . . agitated if the mind is agitated...
Carroll F. Getchell, business manager of the HAA poses questions like "Can suitable ice be maintained until the end of the Crimson season next March?" Or "How much will various weather conditions affect the playing surface...
...duchess, marchioness, countess and lady. He took to appearing in a bearskin, squatting on the floor and chanting gibberish "Indian songs my mother taught me in the cradle." As the royalties poured in, he began mouthing cloudy dicta, e.g., "Genius works night and day and the antipodes do not affect it." Privately he admitted, "I'm damned if I could tell the difference between a hexameter and a pentameter to save my scalp...
...policies understood he occasionally forgot that some things not only go without saying, but are better left unsaid. At a press conference (TIME, Sept. 14), he said that it would be a disaster if Konrad Adenauer did not win the West German elections. This statement came too late to affect the elections either way, but it was a bobble none the less. At the same time, Dulles strongly intimated that he did not feel bound to hold to the pro-Italian Trieste policy which the U.S. had adopted over five years ago when Yugoslavia was still a Soviet satellite...