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...Radcliffe Government Association yesterday concluded its year-long debate on sign-out regulations, and unanimously passed the plan proposed by its Executive Council two weeks...
...staff members of the Harvard Medical School have completed a year-long study which shows that mechanical defects in cars may cause as many as half the 50,000 traffic deaths each year...
...always called a 'constructivist,' " says Naum Gabo, now 75, "as if I were a kind of pedantic engineer on the borders of art." As a dazzling year-long European retrospective of Gabo's sculptures, drawings and paintings drew to a close in London last week, it was doubtful that constructivist would ever again carry that connotation. In a chorus of approbation, critics have proclaimed that Gabo is anything but a pedantic engineer. In fact, as the founder of constructivism, he ranks as one of the innovators of 20th century...
...late 1920s, President Stratton Brooks faced a year-long student-faculty revolt, triggered by his suspension of three sociology instructors for having asked 600 students if they thought the low economic status of women had any effect upon sexual relations. By then Missouri had long been caught, as President Elmer Ellis puts it, "between Northern aspirations and Southern methods of taxation...
...voluntary contributions" to a special U.N. peace-keeping fund, the U.S. last August dropped its insistence that Russia, France and ten other nations be denied a vote in the General Assembly until they paid up their back assessments. The compromise was cheered by all members, for it ended a year-long crisis that had paralyzed the Assembly. So far, however, only the U.S. has lived up to the bargain. Every suggestion that Russia and France come through with their voluntary payments, Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg told the Assembly last week, has been greeted with "thunderous silence...