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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under retiring President Victor L. Butterfield, Wesleyan's "College Plan" has accented independent study for undergraduates. Similarly, Wesleyan's freewheeling Ph.D. programs (in biology, physics, math and world music) allow students to ground themselves broadly in the liberal arts, combatting complaints of the stifling specialization of most doctoral studies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Affluent Miniversity | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

Trash into Water. Burning rubbish in most of today's inefficient incinerators merely puts the dirt into the air (New York municipal incinerators spew out 38.6 tons a day), and most existing land-dump areas are quickly being filled up. Few populous neighborhoods will allow new ones to be established. The crisis that many cities will face in five or ten years has already hit San Francisco. For 44 years, the little town of Brisbane has served as San Francisco's major dump; now it has won a court order that may soon stop at the town line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: The Garbage Explosion | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

...father is a building superintendent for a home town bank, and neither he nor Sergeant Smith's mother graduated from college. He is sending back one-half of his base pay to allow his mother to finish back courses for her degree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A 20-Year-Old Medic Describes Army Life: You Can 'Escape' But You Can't Dissent | 5/23/1967 | See Source »

King Constantine dramatically announced Sunday that the Greek military junta will allow 20 experts to draw up a constitution within six months. Although it represents the first concession made by the reactionary rules since the coup a month ago, the plan does not guarantee a return to a representative government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Military Aid to Greece | 5/23/1967 | See Source »

...past experience shows, Constantine is no champion of the democratic process. In fact, he was largely to blame for the military takeover. During the two years before the coup, he stubbornly refused to allow elections in Greece. He cooperated with the right-wing in setting up a series of puppet governments. When the constitution prevented him from postponing elections any longer, he appointed the rightist minority as the caretaker government to run the elections. During its previous tenure in government in 1961, this rightist party had flagrantly rigged the elections. Despite attempts at another manipulation this year, all indications were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Military Aid to Greece | 5/23/1967 | See Source »

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