Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group presented Acting City Clerk Paul Healy with a stack of 1776 petition sheets calling for a November vote on their rent control ordinance, which would roll back rents to January 1968 levels and allow eight per cent yearly increases on the approval of a rent control board. They claimed to have signatures of over 9000 Cambridge voters on the petitions...
...petitions were sent to the City's board of Election Commissioners; which must now check them to see if they contain the approximately 3297 valid signatures (eight per cent of Cambridge's 41,213 registered voters) needed to put the measure on the ballot. If the petitions contain more than the required number of signatures, the city council then has 20 days to pass the ordinance without amendment, or it will be put to the voters in November...
...founder and director of the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Buck has chaired its board of directors since 1960. He is also chairman of the Ford Foundation's Committee on the Role of Education in American History...
...Varda's Les Creatures, the hero and villain of the piece sit down beside a series of television screens and begin to play and odd sort of futuristic chess. The game's pieces represent characters in the village of the film. When two of them meet on the chess board, they meet in real life and are observed on the television screens. The villain has at his disposal a trap which, when it hovers over any one of the characters, permits him to play havoc with that character's emotions...
...with its own glorious moments, can call Sunday the proudest day of his life, what else can it be for the rest of us? And yes, Spiro, if you want to go to Mars, we're all for it as long as, next time, more color cameras are on board. For despite a few tedious stretches necessarily involved in transversing the macromiles, Apollo 11 carried off a splendid show. Despite the billions it cost, it was worth it. As even the usually jaded Walter Cronkite kept repeating Sunday afternoon, "Oh, boy!" Yes, Walter, for once we agree...