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Four of the University's science professors yesterday attacked the National Science Foundation bill passed by the House of Representatives Wednesday for the strict loyalty checks it prescribes for all people associated with the Foundation...
...Even strict economy measures, such as abolishing rents and taxes on MTA property and payroll reductions, will not bring the yearly deficit below $3,000,000. The only feasible solution is the fare hike. From now on Bostonians will just have to fumble for that extra nickel...
...will be in Parliament when all these formalities are over. The Parliament chosen in 1945 had 393 Laborites, 197 Conservatives, and a smattering of Liberals, Communists, and others. For five years, Labor has had a healthy majority to carry through its program: nationalization of basic industries, socialized medicine, strict rationing, high taxation, tight restrictions on business and foreign trade, and democratization of the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...avoid being blown to rubble, the report suggests, U.S. buildings should be redesigned to meet the specifications of strict codes used in earthquake regions. At present most are designed to resist a wind pressure of 20 lbs. a sq. ft. To give reasonable security against an atom bomb explosion half a mile away, this should be raised to 90 lbs. a sq. ft. At times of atom danger, all windows should be made of wire-glass and lined with heavy wire mesh to catch large flying fragments...
President Edman was not surprised when several students trooped up to the rostrum. Such impromptu declarations are not unusual at Wheaton, a little (1,500 students), nondenominational college which still bears the stamp of its strict fundamentalist heritage: no movies, smoking, card-playing, dancing or drinking, a 10 p.m. weekday curfew. But as the first students finished speaking, a surge of confessional fervor swept through the auditorium...