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When the Student Council withdrew from NSA last year, it argued that the Congress passed policy resolutions with undue haste and insufficient consideration. The 1958 report also pointed out that delegates cannot "represent" the diversified political views in the College...
...snake called Bothrops insularis. Pit vipers related to rattlesnakes but much more poisonous, they swarm in the undergrowth, festoon the trees. They are found nowhere else in all the world, and their control of the mile-long island has not been contested since 1921, when the Brazilian government withdrew its lighthouse keepers after snakes had killed three of them and the wife of a fourth. They seem to live an ideal life, with plenty of sea birds to prey upon and no enemies. But all is not well in their paradise. Last week Herpetologist Alphonse Richard Hoge...
...London meeting Sedov even seemed to enjoy his own doubletalk. When the Russians withdrew an astronomical paper, Sedov admitted to a Russian-speaking colleague that the reason was that British figures proved it erroneous. But when a British reporter asked for corroboration, Sedov offered three other explanations in quick succession : 1) there were too many papers already; 2) it would have been given if the author had been on hand; and 3) there were not enough Russian scientists present to discuss it. He chuckled merrily at each new alibi...
...reforms, and Quincy even took the revolutionary step of establishing a high school for girls. Quincy's pride kept him from remaining in office longer than five years. In the election of 1828 he failed to obtain an absolute majority on either of the first two ballots, and withdrew in a huff from the race...
...from the shadows came half a dozen teen-age youngsters. "Where's Frenchy?" demanded one. Nobody knew, although some were aware that cocky Frenchy Cordero, from downtown, had recently been chased out of the neighborhood after he tried to sell marijuana to a Clinton woman. The intruders withdrew. Scared, the Clinton kids decided to hurry on home. But as they started to go, the invaders appeared again...