Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have a simple solution to the problems of highway/airway congestion and frustration: take the train. I've just returned from a round trip by train, New York to Miami, and it was a dream of comfort and efficiency. Board in midtown any morning, no queues, no long walks; baggage goes with you. Air-conditioned coaches are attractive, rooms/roomettes with private bath immaculate. Porters are cheerful, friendly, solicitous, dining cars spotless and there's TV in the club...
There were other indications of growing impatience, both with wavering college presidents and radical student groups. At Cornell, the board of trustees ordered President James Perkins to implement a ten-point program that would protect the school against "tactics of terror." In Cambridge, a judge found all but four of 173 defendants guilty of criminal trespass during their occupation of a Harvard administration building last month. At the same time, Harvard undergraduates ignored the urgings of the S.D.S. and voted by a 3-to-l margin against resumption of their student strike...
...minimums set by the International Grains Agreement in 1967. France opened negotiations with Red China on a deal to unload soft wheat. Not wanting to be left holding a surplus, the U.S. followed by underselling grain to Germany and Britain. Canadian farmers, prevented by the strait-laced Canadian Wheat Board from breaking the Grains Agreement, could only fume as prices fell. The board finally relented after it became apparent that a free-for-all was shaping...
WINSHIP: Going back to what the university can do -- the governing board of Harvard is about 300 years...
...Harvard Rules is 88 pages long with a fold-out chart of interlocking Governing Board directorships inside. It costs one dollar but can be acquired for a quarter. It is a fascinating work, mainly the product of the Old Mole staff and something called the Africa Research Group. It presents a long and detailed analysis in Marxist terms of how and why the university works...