Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maynard planned his study program carefully over the summer. He wrote some academic friends and told them he wanted to study urban problems and automation. "I got back reading lists, guidance, and advice on which professors to seek out and which to avoid," he said. When he got here he enrolled in the speed reading course offered by the Bureau of Study Counsel...
...talks. Finally, the Six approved a compromise plan that formalized an agreement to disagree. On the crucial question of whether France could retain its veto over "major" EEC decisions, the plan noted only that "a difference of opinion exists"-implying that the Five would lean over backwards to avoid getting involved in anything all that important. It was nothing like the virtual rewrite of the veto provision in the Treaty of Rome once threatened by Charles de Gaulle. Nevertheless, the other Five noted with relief that France's Foreign Minister Couve de Murville seemed willing to rejoin them...
There are several ways to postpone or avoid being drafted, though some of them involve other types of military service. The most pleasant way for married men is simply to sire a little deferment. A man may also join the Reserve or National Guard, but he must serve on active duty for four to six months, attend meetings for the rest of his six-year obligation, and be ready for active duty if his unit is called up during an emergency; besides, many National Guard and most Reserve units already have full quotas. Then there is the Peace Corps...
University religion courses are designed not to defend one faith but to explain all. "We're not selling it; we're studying it," says Chairman John Hutchison of the Claremont College's religion department. Universities deliberately avoid hiring propagandizers for a faith. "It's completely irrelevant to us whether a man is a good Christian or a good Protestant or a good atheist just so long as he is a good and competent scholar," says Columbia's Joseph Blau. Western Michigan has had a Jesuit priest teaching Hinduism and Buddhism, while at Wisconsin a course...
Died. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, 72, younger of World War I's draft-dodging brothers; of pneumonia; in Richmond, Va. The playboy sons of a wealthy German-American brewer in Philadelphia, Grover and his brother Erwin skipped town to avoid a draft call in 1918, declaring that they would not "fight against our kind." Erwin eventually surrendered, but Grover led the cops on a chase around the U.S. for a year and a half before he was found hiding inside a window seat in his mother's mansion. Sentenced to five years, he soon escaped, and this time fled...