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Derek C. Bok, assistant professor of Law and second speaker at the forum, pointed out that by this reasoning public sentiment was made to appear similar to compulsory arbitration. But public pressure is not really very effective, he contended...
Americans appear to regard cultural exchange as a vehicle to penetrate Russia's most neurotic fear of foreign institutions; the Soviets seem to forsee economic cooperation which will hasten the economic advance of Communism--and this difference of viewpoint was clear in the proposals: the United States sought exchange of teachers, students, and ordinary tourists, while the Soviet Union proposed increased emphasis on technology and trade...
...hormones from which the sex-character stimulation could be divorced. But now that chemists have turned the trick with male hormones, they hope to repeat it with female hormones. This could be important to men, in far greater numbers than to breast cancer victims, because female hormones appear to afford some protection against the major dangers of atherosclerosis. But many men have refused them because of the feminizing effects from the doses usually given...
...most beautiful women, Soprano Moffo was soon singing in major European opera houses, was signed by the Chicago Lyric Opera in 1957. She had turned down two previous offers from the Met on the ground that the proposed schedule demanded too much of her time. (This season she will appear also in the Met's Faust and Marriage of Figaro...
...Queen Anne's day. Girls cured warts by rubbing them with lard and then burying the lard (a method described by Francis Bacon). They performed a levitation stunt that once fascinated Samuel Pepys. They still believe that reciting the Lord's Prayer backwards makes the Devil appear, and like the Elizabethans, seldom dare...