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...number of conferences and forums which the School schedules for its patrons. This year's forums were heavily weighted toward discussions of education, many of which were found by undergraduates to be quite tedious. One of the public forums on Education and Science was widely praised, however, and weekly panel discussions by members of the International Seminar proved quite popular. During the height of the Middle East crisis the Egyptian delegate frequently raised the temperatures of forums on Arab unity. Indian and French delegates "disinflated their national egos" at one forum, and a British delegate asserted that "our shrinking pains...
...onetime defeated candidate for lieutenant governor (who got a $43,000 Teamster donation to his campaign chest). When the Internal Revenue Service bird-dogged Hoffa's tax returns, Fitzgerald suggested that Jimmy's accountant "get rid of" Hoffa's net-worth statement. When a Washington jury panel was called for Hoffa's bribery trial (TIME, July 29, 1957), Fitzgerald hired an investigator to investigate the jurors. Similarly, while the McClellan committee checked on Hoffa, Fitzgerald hired a private eye to ogle three committee investigators. Finally, when a federal judge was rumored ready to freeze assets...
Thursday will be taken up by a trip to Newport, R.I., where the delegates will be taken out to sea on U.S. and Canadian destroyers to watch the America Cup Challenge. A news conference and panel-discussion open to the public are scheduled for Friday, and Saturday's banquet will close the meeting...
...doolies,"* i.e., plebes, had to halt before passing an upperclassman to ask "By your leave, sir." In the well-outfitted rooms, other cadets pored over manuals, searching for instructions on where to place skivvies in the gleaming walnut dressers, where to hang battle jackets behind the handsome sliding panels of their closets. Instead of commands from a bull-voiced sergeant, they got fresh instructions from a softly modulated public-address system, and instead of a bulletin board, they watched a panel of code lights that blinked out the kind of uniform to be worn for supper formation...
APRIL. The Bethe Panel submitted its report to Killian, who turned it over to the President. The panel's chief finding: an effective detection network could indeed be set up. The report rocked the Pentagon, challenged the judgment of AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss that rogue-proof detection was not possible. But on the diplomatic side, it convinced Secretary of State John Foster Dulles that a stop-the-tests agreement was technically feasible, therefore worth exploring for its effect on world opinion...