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...Cambridge, Coach Arthur Valpey refused to commit himself on the Yale announcement. He pointed out that his football team has a 12-week season (including early fall practice) and that daily practices are two hours in length. These statistics are exactly in line with the Torch's proposals...
Cold Feet. Near Potsdam, Germany, emerging from the icy water of Grunewald Lake, a shivering couple explained to police what they were doing there at this time of year: they had planned to commit suicide, but the water was too cold...
...much power as burning about 4 billion pounds of coal. Wrote Professor Henry D. Smyth (now an AECommissioner) in his famous 1945 Report: "Should a scheme be devised for converting to energy as much as a few percent of some common material, civilization would have the means to commit suicide at will...
...watching and by playing. To satisfy the watcher, the spectator, the ballplayer is generally called an athlete. In professional sports the avowed purpose is to please the spectator, not the ballplayers. It is natural, then, for the professional to tag opponents in the nose win a baseball, to commit intentional fouls in the hope they will not be seen on the basketball court, etc. The supreme purpose of non-professional sports is the enjoyment of the ballplayers, whether he wins or loses, whether he is talented or not. A simple example of the conflict between the ballplayer...
...examine the Federal acts in force at the time of the adoption of the order. There existed at that time, and still exist, statutes punishing sabatoge, 50 USC 104-6; espionage, 50 USC 31-2; treason, 18 USC 1-3; sedition, 18 USC 10; and in addition, conspiracy to commit any of the above was punished under 18 USC 88. Also, Federal Civil Service employees are liable for discharge "for such cause as will promote the efficiency of the service." 5 USC 562. Obviously, in light of these existing statutes, more than protection against "subversive acticity" motivated the issuance...