Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...process. Essentially, the Rules Committee serves as the House's traffic-control device, as necessary as traffic lights at big-city intersections. The House has 437 members, who among them introduce several thousand bills every year. Under an old House rule, every member has a theoretical right to speak for one hour on every bill that comes to the floor. Without firm traffic control, the legislative process would swiftly collapse into chaos. To exercise that control, the Rules Committee is equipped with powers to 1) decide whether a bill gets to the floor at all, 2) fix a maximum...
...Nigerian secondary school principal will discuss the problems and opportunities of teaching in his country with students interested in the Harvard "youth corps" project. He will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in the Quincy House Junior Common Room. Under the sponsorship of the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee for a Youth Service Project, Tai Solarin, principal of the Mayflower Secondary School, will attempt to provide "a clear picture of what joining the project will entail," according to Michael M. Hornblow '62, vice-chairman of the group...
Leave the Pebbles. Their way of life, however, is pioneer Israeli. Three years ago a Parisian metallurgical engineer named Vincent Thibout, then 33, took his pregnant wife, Therese, to Israel, where they spent 18 months in a kibbutz (collective). He learned how to farm and speak a fluent facsimile of Hebrew; he strews his talk with as many shalom as an ordinary Frenchman with alors...
...Johnson will be No. 2 man instead of Nixon. Rusk will speak for U.S. in foreign affairs instead of Herter; Dillon will be in charge of finances instead of Anderson. The whole command will change...
Greek Gods and Heroes, by Robert Graves. The only classicist who troubles himself to speak to the upper-middle intellectual class has disarmingly retold the Greek myths for young readers...