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...first scheduled speaker, Dan Teodoru, Eastern Director for the National Student Co-ordinating Committee for Freedom in Vietnam, walked to the microphone and began baiting the crowd. He offered to relinquish the microphone to any member of the crowd who wanted to speak, and got two takers. While the second held the microphone, Harvard police chief Robert Tonis approached Cox and warned him that some members of the small crowd outside had broken a firedoor and were attempting to force their way into the Theatre. Cox then asked McCarty to end the meeting. The speakers made their...
After they relinquish their blood, donors receive sandwiches and cookies served by Faculty wives. Jewish students can receive kosher food. The blood-giving procedure lasts about an hour and 15 minutes...
...Eager to relinquish power and return the country to civilian rule, Yahya called elections last December for a National Assembly to write a new constitution. East Pakistanis gave Sheik Mujib's Awami League 167 of the region's 169 seats-and an overall majority in the combined nation's 313-seat assembly chamber. Mujib's platform called for a virtual dismantling of the central government, leaving it in charge of defense and diplomacy and giving the provinces total control of taxes, trade and foreign...
Surprisingly, Princeton has not proved a congenial place to work. Students are slothful and in search of a father figure, he says. Parents are#151;well-parental. (One frantic couple from Detroit beseeched Burgess to convince their son that he must relinquish his dream of becoming a poet and join the family business.) Burgess and his new young wife, a linguist named Liana, sublet sight unseen a tiny faculty apartment from a large Chinese family, which left them a vast quantity of chopsticks but no flatware-and little place to write...
...report basically assumes that "A total merger of Radcliffe College into Harvard University is not desirable at this time." What it achieves is a masterpiece of how to have your cake and eat it too-Harvard will obtain co-education without changing its admissions policies, while Radcliffe will relinquish financial responsibility for housing and administration, without giving up its endowment...