Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University has stubbornly refused to change its policy for readmission. Dean Monro acknowledges that former undergraduates who attended another college to avoid the draft have reapplied to Harvard, and have been rejected. Harvard's justification is that the Selective Service System is counting on colleges to maintain normal operations, and to make no academic exceptions for students because of higher draft calls. Admittedly, the University should not keep a student whose performance has been unsatisfactory simply to save him from the Army. But neither should it place an undergraduate who has fallen below normal academic levels and left Harvard...
...prosecutor's questions made clear, Subandrio was not the only one on trial. The government's real aim in hauling him before the court, in fact, was to implicate Sukarno in the plot. So far, Subandrio had managed to avoid this, but only barely. "It's only a matter of time," said a top government officer. "If Subandrio gets up and says he was just following orders of the President-well, that...
...subliminal authority. The effect can be traced, says Cronkite, to the almost embarrassing intimacy of the camera. Even more important, he says, everything the viewer sees and hears comes to him on what amounts to an electronic front page. What the managing editor chooses for him, he cannot avoid. He cannot skip from headline to headline and browse among stories. They are all read aloud, right to the end. "There are no back pages in our kind of journalism," says Cronkite. Everything is up front where it cannot be overlooked...
...coming. Along with the aging Black and Douglas, Chief Justice Warren is 76; Justices Clark and Harlan are 67. And the word is that Clark's son Ramsey may become Attorney General (once his father's post). If that happens, Clark might consider resigning in order to avoid any suggestion of impropriety in his sitting on Justice Department cases. Thus far, President Johnson has appointed only Justice Abe Fortas; the odds are that he will soon be called on to fill other vacancies-and perhaps create a considerably different court in the process...
...agreed, beginning in 1962, to drop low-priced (and low-profit) lines of equipment while hiking the tag on the more expensive models, involving about $1 billion in sales all told; company executives had reached their agreements and planned staggered publication of new price lists "in order to avoid suspicion" during conventions and "under the guise of so-called 'official' Plumbing Fixtures Manufacturing Association meetings" in New York, Chicago, Palm Beach and other cities...