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Some members of the Committee, Sprague included, had hoped that M.I.T. would remain a member of NSA. "We might have gotten a lot out of the organization, if we had been willing to devote the time and effort," Sprague said
...pleut sur le village," he recalled from an old course in French literature, "but of course it doesn't rain in Provence." Vag remembered he would need a language recommendation for his French fellowship. He thought of M. Plombier, his French A section man. He had gotten a C- in the course, "mais alors, M. Plombier etait une ame sympathique...
...subjective" judgment can at times serve as a pretext to ignore this involvement. If moral philosophy cannot be taught, it can at least be discussed as if it were an important topic in itself, rather than an impurity in the academic microscope to be discounted if it cannot be gotten...
...Fifth Revolutionary Law would have ordered the confiscation of all holdings and ill-gotten gains of those who had committed frauds during the previous regimes...and to implement this, special courts with full powers would gain access to all records...to investigate concealed funds of illegal origin, and to request that foreign governments extradite persons and attach holdings (illegally removed from Cuba...
...Department offered 35 hours of lectures in English and 22 hours in speech. Groups attending the lectures varied in size from 100 to 450. The problems encountered were that some pupils, lost in the anonymity of a large group, were tempted to pay little attention and the others had gotten the impression that the lectures would be only a simple reveiw and thus came to class with a lazy attitude. To check these problems note taking was required of all students and tests were administered...