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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interplay between the two groups, Wald pointed out, is adding greatly to the course. He noted that the presence of the general education students provides a "scope and breadth of treatment" while the presence of biology and pre-med students "lends a certain stiffening" to the course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gen Ed Students Match Scientists in Nat. Sci. 5 | 4/20/1961 | See Source »

...Descartes, void space was nothing and therefore nonexistent. On the other hand, Newton conceived of the length, breadth, and depth of space as innate properties. Since space possessed absolute extension for Newton, he could not accept a finite Universe. Limits to the Universe should imply a meaningless space beyond...

Author: By William D. Phelan jr., | Title: Koyre Stresses Role of Philosophy in Development of Modern Science | 3/9/1961 | See Source »

...varsity hockey team, after a weekend that left it a hair's breadth from leadership among Eastern sextets, meets Northeastern tonight in the feature attraction of the pre-christmas schedule in Greater Boston. Game time at Watson Rink...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Powerful, Balanced Sextet Faces Star-Studded Northeastern Squad | 12/15/1960 | See Source »

...automatons to carry out the public will. One by one, the states adopted the custom of casting all their electoral ballots for the candidate who carried a popular plurality, however small. That winner-take-all plan increased the possibility that a candidate could win an electoral majority by hair-breadth victories in big-vote states while still losing the nationwide popular vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: REFORMING THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

...Queen missed the end of her reign by an estimated 50 ft. Angling in on the Queen's R.A.F. Comet, Orion, came two U.S.-made Sabre jet fighters. They closed with the Comet at more than 1,000 m.p.h., whooshed past little more than a jet's-breadth above the airliner. The Queen and Prince Philip were unaware of their close call, but not so one of the copilots, who later growled: "And they had damn great iron crosses beneath their wings." From West Germany's Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss came "deep regrets," a promise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 7, 1960 | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

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