Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prepared to agree to remove all nuclear weapons and its force of 20 B-52 bombers from the island. In addition, Washington is expected to consent to prior consultation with Japan before launching combat operations against any other Asian nation from Okinawa bases. This agreement, satisfactory to Tokyo, would allow continued U.S. military operations on the island, but under the same restrictions now imposed on the 148 U.S. bases in Japan itself...
Deferred Vote. Although details remain to be worked out, an agreement along these lines would probably allow the Pentagon to acquire the first two missile sites, in Montana and North Da kota, and install two sets of radars - Perimeter-Acquisition Radar and Missile-Site Radar - along with the com puter network needed for processing information on incoming enemy missiles...
Considerable resistance will be met, of course, in trying to persuade the University's two governing boards to allow these reforms even if they are possible-- the old men who run the University appear quite willing to risk shutting down Harvard present to serve their vision of Harvard past. But if reform is impossible, it is not so for legal reasons...
...high quality does not, of course, allow the Houghton to be complacent; but it does allow it breathing space in which to ponder a more serious question that confronts it: that of its role within the University and, implicitly, the community. Many people have recently proposed that Harvard make greater efforts to involve the people of Cambridge in its intellectual life and, specifically, that it make the resources of its libraries more accessible to the public...
...find this logical for big city institutions," Hofer says, "but less logical for a university institution, and still less logical for a rare books library such as ours, where we primarily want to serve scholars. We are essentially here for scholarship work, and we allow the public in to the degree that it is scholarly. The real value of this library is that these are source materials for, the scholar who wants to get right down to the fundamentals: where did it all come from...