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...Houses met a mixed reaction--far from the nearly unanimous approval they enjoy today. The CRIMSON wondered editorially whether the new social system might not infringe on student individuality, and the undergraduates themselves were not uniformly anxious to commit their College life to the House idea. As the months rolled on, however, one House after another was completed, and the Class of '34 became the first (in history) to spend all three of its upperclass years as members of a House system that quickly gained student respect...
...that his bizarre beat does not affect him: "I don't have any trouble sleeping." But watching men die has made him a firm opponent of capital punishment. Says he: "I'm sure there have been at least six or seven executed for crimes they did not commit, and Lord only knows how many people died for crimes they did commit but whose punishment was too severe...
...Commit addicts to the special hospitals for at least two months for medical (including psychiatric) treatment, vocational training, and rehabilitation. ¶ Keep discharged victims visiting the hospital's out-patient clinic for continued psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation; prescribe maintenance doses of narcotics at cost† on a tapering-off schedule for addicts who revert to the drugs; prescribe minimum maintenance doses for incurables...
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko refused to commit his government to a proposal of the United States and Britain for a broad scientific study of the technical problems involved in any suspension...
...time in Canton, Shanghai, Manchuria. Repeatedly jailed, he was a top underground leader in the harsh 1927 fighting in Shanghai between the Communist labor unions and Chiang Kaishek, described in André Malraux's novel Man's Fate. Liu's first wife reportedly tried to commit suicide at the party's underground headquarters, and he hired a ricksha to take her to the doctor. When criticized for not ordering a taxi in such an emergency, Liu, true to his doctrinaire code, coldly replied that it might have drawn the attention of the police and endangered...