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Through the College Charters, Statutes, and rulings, runs also that fragile thread of personalities and human relationships which can keep the warp of the Corporation interwoven harmoniously with the woof of the Faculty. When this thread is snapped, as it has been occasionally, the result is revolt and hostility...
Hard Requirements. In and between the lines of the majority report was woven a strong thread of sadness. "It seemed to us," said the majority, "that an alternative recommendation would be possible, if we were allowed to exercise mature practical judgment without the rigid circumscription of regulations and criteria established for us. In good sense, it could be recommended that Dr. Oppenheimer simply not be used as a consultant and that therefore there exists no need for a categorical answer to the difficult question posed by the regulations, since there would be no need for access to classified material...
Most pioneers had only tents to live in; poor food was dished out in communal kitchens, and the canteens had little to sell ("Five Komsomols went to Magnitogorsk, which is more than 500 miles away, [to buy] toothbrushes, toothpaste, thread, shoelaces, indelible pencils, envelopes . . . Nothing like that exists here...
...side. But the two sections did not fit together, and Rorimer began to suspect that there was a missing middle section. Last year he found just what he was looking for in the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore. Brought together, the three sections matched perfectly in design, color and thread count...
...RUBBER and Britain's Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd. have made peace with the Justice Department after six years of fighting a suit charging them with a cartel to divide up world markets in natural latex, rubber thread and elastic yarn. Though U.S. Rubber denies violating the antitrust laws, it has signed a consent decree promising to make its patents available to competitors at reasonable fees, and to manage separately companies jointly owned with Dunlop...