Word: akron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Difficult Task. A native of Akron, St. Clair graduated from the University of Illinois in 1941 and from Harvard Law School in 1947. During his legal career, he has held an improbable collection of jobs. In 1954 he served on the staff of Joseph N. Welch, whose televised condemnations of Senator Joseph...
...Harvard, 80 per cent of the undergraduates are from outside of Massachusetts. Students tend to pay more attention to urban renewal in Akron, Ohio, or rent control efforts in Eugene, Ore., than they do to alleged police brutality in Cambridge or to the implications of Harvard expansion...
There is good reason for this. Urban renewal in Akron, Ohio is likely to affect friends and family of the Akron-born student. But due to Harvard's peculiar insulation from its environs, most issues of Cambridge elections have little impact on undergraduates here...
Several other colleges have tried to turn on teen-agers with music. The University of Akron has a radio commercial backed by folk music; Franconia College has one supported by Mendelssohn. Mississippi State hands out records that proclaim, to a driving rock beat, that M.S. is "the groovy place to get it all together." But Chicago's Loyola University has now outhuckstered them all by saturating the local airwaves for a week with its very own soft rock song...
...dirt, men!" one officer yelled-to the relief of Pfc. Willie Wilkins from Akron, who proceeded to lie face down in the sand. "These people can be gung-ho," he muttered, "but I'm just going to play the game. I can give you my opinion of this entire operation in two words...