Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aim of Lowell's program had been to educate students into ideals of public service. Thus their sparce, grave Commencement was oddly logical. For the students who had favored duty to country and universal conscription were far from "gentlemen scholars." William H. Meeker, who had been the President of the CRIMSON during that year, died the following September, 1917, at Pau, France. Like many who were absent at graduation, the Class Poet William Wilcox '17, mailed in his poem from the Newport News aviation camp. There was no Ivy Oration; the Orator, Henry Wentworth, was away in training camp...
...only were Arab and Israeli soldiers eyeball to eyeball in the Middle East last week, but the press was lens to lens. Photographers would drive down from Tel Aviv to the Gaza Strip and aim their long-range cameras across the line to where Egyptian troops had replaced the U.N. forces. Often as not, they would sight right into the long-range cameras of photographers on the opposite side, shooting the other way. The Middle East is a place where the smallest distances can mark in superable barriers, and the only way to cover the situation is to have...
...psychological problems may be created in the classroom. Still, a reasonably well-prepared and well-balanced teacher can usually explain things in an atmosphere less emotionally charged than that found in the home. The big questions in class are when children are to be taught, how and with what aim...
...North Vietnamese battalion. Rising to a half-crouch to direct the defense, the company commander took a bullet under his left eye and fell dead. Within minutes, all the company's officers had been either killed or wounded, many by snipers lashed in tall trees to steady their aim. Though nearly half the U.S. force was killed or wounded in the three-hour battle, they held off charge after charge by the larger enemy force, who were gaudily capped in red berets. When the battle was over, 92 enemy dead were found. To the east, U.S. Marines launched Operation...
Chocolates & Chaos. High on the list of Düsseldorfs innovators to gain international recognition over the past decade are Heinz Mack, 36, Otto Piene, 39, and Günther Uecker, 37 (see color pages). The three young "idealists" joined together as the Group Zero in 1958; their aim, according to Uecker, was to create "a white world" out of light, motion and other optical effects, and Zero presaged the founding of half a dozen other experimental groups in as many different countries. Another leader is Painter Gerhard Richter, enigmatic 1960 fugitive from East Germany's socialist realism, whose...