Word: absently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alan Austin '70, president of the Freshman Council, said last night he believes the program will not work unless small groups of freshmen are assigned to blocs of freshman associates. At present, whole entries are assigned to blocs of freshman associates and the element of individual responsibility is absent...
...woman teacher has no right to compensation for jury duty-even though men teachers do. New York City's board of education refused to pay Teacher Muriel Goldblatt the difference between her jury pay and what she would have earned had she not been absent from the classroom. Since men teachers get such compensation, Mrs. Goldblatt sued the board. Sorry, ruled Civil Court Judge George Starke. While men teachers must serve when called, New York exempts women from jury duty. Thus women teachers serve only by choice, and are not entitled to pay for teaching when they volunteer...
...scoutmaster is portrayed by Fred MacMurray, whose numerous Disney movies (The Absent-Minded Professor and four others) have made him the studio's most popular character since Mickey Mouse. Fred presents the hero as the sort of six-foot sissy who plays with little kids because he's scared of the bigger boys, and who helps little old ladies across the street because he doesn't dare offer his arm to a slick chick. No real boy, of course, would accept such an unmitigated gnerd as his leader, but the producers assemble about 20 Hollywood children, fresh...
...absent resident of California, I was overwhelmed by the news of Ronald Reagan's victory. The contest pitted vigor and a constructive campaign against a stagnant administration and a campaign based on the destruction of character. My faith has been restored in the "ignorant" voting public-though eight years of education was necessary...
...other important sectors the state's Negroes are obviously behind those in the North, they are still better off than those in most other Southern states. This was true even before the Little Rock eruption in 1957. The intense racial animosities of the Deep South are notably absent in Arkansas, where Negroes had little difficulty voting even before the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In Little Rock, where schools were rigidly segregated ten years ago, some 1,400 Negroes now go to classes with whites. With a 25% Negro population statewide, Arkansas' school integration pace is ahead...