Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better representation of black attitudes and background on the Admissions Staff...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The North American Gymnastic Championships, from Vancouver, B.C.; the Trenton "150" Auto Race, from Trenton, N.J.; and a background look at the Jimmy Ellis-Jerry Quarry Heavyweight Championship fight, to be telecast live on ABC from...
...West this year, they also marked the end of their first year under military rule. To celebrate the occasion, the junta planned military parades, ordered flags flown from every building and issued new gold and silver coins bearing its symbol: the shadow of a soldier against the background of a phoenix rising from the ashes. The regime of Colonel-turned-Premier George Papadopoulos hinted that it would make some surprise announcements, perhaps including an amnesty for many of its 2,500 political prisoners, 100 of whom were released just before Easter. And, in an effort to ensure that the celebra...
Arch Sci always had about twice as many freshmen interested as eventually concentrated; but the major was played down. Its existence was even more ambiguous than Vis Stud's. Being part of the Graduate School of Design, the program's requirements and tutors geared studies to architecture and background knowledge essential to becoming an architect...
...hearings, however, free speech arguments remained mostly in the background as the defendants' lawyers assailed the indictment itself, handed down by a Grand Jury in January. The indictment declares that the five men took part in a nationwide program of draft resistance and the defense kept up a drumfire of demands that the government produce specific information to substantiate the existence of the anti-draft conspiracy. The lawyers pressed particularly to discredit the government's depiction of the alleged conspiracy's size. "Anything that happened within the nation--I would assume all 50 states--could come with in the purview...