Word: attends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state occasion in Buenos Aires' majestic Colon Theater. In honor of visiting Japanese Crown Prince Akihito, the city had scheduled a gala performance of Stravinsky's ballet Rite of Spring, and Juan Carlos Ongania, the retired general who seized power last year, had agreed to attend. Ongania was not enjoying himself. In the middle of the performance, he rose from the presidential box and ushered his wife and 28-year-old daughter Sara to the rear. Rite of Spring, he informed Mayor Eugenio Schettini the next day, was a dirty ballet and should not be permitted in Buenos...
...inequities that the Administration is now studying cry out for correction, but most have little chance for serious Congressional consideration. The President has more pressing business to attend to: the condition of the national economy, Vietnam and its budgetary demands, and the Congressional attempts to cut his domestic programs. He will not be able to press Congress on reform. For its own part, Congress has a special aversion towards any reform of the tax system; often the financial interests closest to Congressmen happen to be the very beneficiaries of economic distortions and abuses...
...surface, Beloit's success with the trimester seems easy to explain: all new students are required to attend the 15-week (May to August) summer term...
While the compulsion is an obvious help, no one, of course, is compelled to attend Beloit. This is no problem, for there are volunteers aplenty, thanks to an imaginative curricular package designed by Beloit President Miller Upton to make summer attendance actually attractive for at least a third of the school's 1,100 students each year...
...Year Off. Upton's multifaceted "Beloit Plan," started in 1964, drops the usual freshman-sophomore-junior senior divisions, in favor of lower, middle and upper classmen. This permits him to treat the two middle years as a single, highly flexible unit. The lower and upper classmen must attend three consecutive trimesters - but in the middle two years students need be on the campus for only two terms. They can choose from among some 30 combinations of classes and off-campus independent study, full-time work, foreign study or just plain vacation. A student can, in fact, arrange to ignore...