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John W. Stokes '54 reported to the Council that at Bundy's suggestion he had spoken with three department heads, and had gotten their promise to discuss the proposal informally with members of their staffs. Stokes is the original author of the plan to extend the foreign study program to nine fields of concentration in addition to the two now included...
Fairley, who is a high jumper in the spring, couldn't have gotten much higher off the floor. Of Dartmouth's 51 rebounds, he alone accounted for 21. "We'd been waiting for him to show," said a teammate after the game...
...attempted in American history . . . This is the Republican Administration I am talking about-not irresponsible members of Congress . . . They announced from the White House, with much fanfare, that they were doing a wonderful job-simply magnificent-of cleaning the Communists out of the Government, and that . . . already they had gotten rid of 1,456 'security risks.' The number had grown to 2,200 by the time of the State of the Union message ... It seems to me that the presidential press conference and the State of the Union message ought not to be used for such deceptive practices...
...conditioned office. Duval County got good roads (built by George Parr's road company). He took care of important friends even more dramatically; one Thomas Y. Pickett, named as county oil evaluator (a job which takes but a few days a year) back in 1926, has gotten as much as $46,934.40 a year in fees. Parr's enemies, on the other hand, have had trouble, e.g., shortly after a radio commentator named W. H. ("Bill") Mason rashly began opposing Parr on the air in 1949, the deputy sheriff of Jim Wells County shot him dead...
...advance copy of the exam and to get one of the culprits to deliver it himself. The trap worked: when the culprit arrived, both Instructor Geis and the campus chief of police were on hand to greet him. The culprit and his three cohorts quickly confessed. They had gotten the examination questions from a used Mimeograph stencil that had been tossed into a campus trash can. "But some day," remarked one of them as he was led away, "I'm going to have to take the course." Instructor Geis's course: elementary criminology...