Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this argument assumes that taking a course and sweating out a good grade in the course are the same thing. The new pass-fail proposal would cut the number of courses students worry about, but more important--would let them try a different and rewarding approach in the fourth course...
...study of the language requirement by the Office of Tests does not, by itself, provide a compelling argument for eliminating the dreary burden. It does, however, indicate that perhaps there should be a more thoroughgoing modification than the deans have so far been willing to consider seriously...
...argument for such a pause gained some sustenance from Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. When he appeared before the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee last August, he was anxious to cool the urge for escalation that had been stirred by earlier testimony from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The brass had argued that without air strikes against North Viet Nam, the U.S. would have needed 800,000 men and $75 billion more to keep even in the war. McNamara insisted that even though the bombing was exacting a high price, it was not cutting the southward flow of men and supplies from Hanoi...
...full of brandy tossed at her by Sherwin Filiberti, 28, wife of one of Judy's business partners and a companion on what was supposed to be a convivial Pan Am flight to London. The drink throwing was followed, Judy claimed, by a screaming three-hour family-type argument between the Filibertis-all of which upset the sensitive singer so much that she took the very next flight back to New York. "How high were you?" asked a reporter at Kennedy Airport. "Thirty-seven thousand feet," replied Judy sweetly. ∙∙∙ Lady Bird Johnson, 54, was only promoting...
...schools of developed and underdeveloped countries. The private talks tended to turn into what one participant termed "a brilliant exchange of misunderstandings" -mainly over what Britain's Barbara Ward called "a sense of tension between the Americans who are managers and the Europeans who are humanists." Generally, the argument was over whether a nation's educational system can be evaluated as a whole by comparing its aims with its means in a U.S.-style "systems analysis" approach or whether education is too complex for such treatment...