Word: basely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...considers it one of his major tasks to exert his influence upon officials who will be setting legislative policy on education. "To base grants on just a per-capita basis would be disastrous to Harvard," he says. "People must recognize that it costs more to educate a specialist or graduate student than an undergraduate, just as a senior is more expensive than a freshman...
Although Yearbook 331 characterized Leverett House as home base of Harvard's musical Establishment, there really is no musical Establishment. Instead, there are five to a dozen groups competing for the privilege. The Glee Club is as much a final club as a music-making organization. The HRO cannot attract many of the best instrumentalists who maintain that their time is better spent practicing privately than rehearsing with the orchestra. By now the "Harvard-Radcliffe" Orchestra has adopted a policy of beefing itself up with players from other colleges and from the conservatories...
...leathernecks streamed ashore 21 miles northeast of Hue in an amphibious and heliborne assault. Sporadic fighting also broke out along the Demilitarized Zone, where the Marines discovered and destroyed no fewer than 77 Communist bunkers, stacked with food and supplies, within a three-mile radius of their Con Thien base camp, just south of the DMZ. Near the Marine base of Dong Ha, a 5,000-man South Vietnamese task force killed 150 Communists of the Viet Cong's elite 708th Battalion...
...diminishing heartland along the Red River once housed 60% of North Viet Nam's economic base. Eleven of the nation's power plants, which produce 80% of the country's electricity, have been struck-some many times. The only large power plant left is Lao Cai, which is off limits because it stands on the border with Red China. U.S. jets recently destroyed the Haiphong plant that poured 95% of the country's cement. The showpiece Thai Nguyen steel plant has been bombed 13 times. To defend the heartland as best he can, Ho has emplaced...
Next, Samuel Rubin, president of the league, singled and later moved to third, where he was held up by his dog Phillipe, the third-base coach. Then everybody sang Happy Birthday to Mrs. Rubin, with Leopold Stokowslci, 85, conducting. It was Softball of the Absurd, as presented in Manhattan's Central Park by the male (Wolf's Gang) and the female (Beethoven's Bunnies) members of Stoky's American Symphony Orchestra. Observed the maestro, who played guest of honor: "It certainly brings out a different side of their personalities from what I see in Carnegie Hall...