Word: bypass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Bangkok to the Mekong valley last week, the $40-million-a-year U.S.-Thai military development program was proceeding apace. Two U.S. Army engineer battalions worked side by side in rising red dust with Royal Thai Army engineers, carving a broad, all-weather military highway-the Bangkok Bypass road-from the Gulf of Siam to the northeast provinces (see map). At the ocean end of the road, the U.S. is building the $11.9 million Sattahip Naval Airbase, replete with jet strips, a deepwater pier, and 70 ammunition bunkers. At the other end stands Camp Friendship, near the town...
...stores. These critics are less offended by totally secular displays than they are by the sanctimonious or hyprocritical use of religious ones-crèches in store windows, a Madonna presiding over the liquor-and-gift-basket department. In the U.S.'s mixed society, "the emphasis is to bypass our differences and get away from the controversy of Christmas," says Professor Dan Dodson, chairman of the sociology department at New York University. "We try to water down the holiday to make it less barbed for people of non-Christian faiths, and this results in a mass culture which erodes...
...voting on the Nat Sci bypass (not to be confused with the Cambridge Inner Belt) was the final stage in the Faculty's consideration of the CEP proposed. The Faculty, Wilcox said yesterday, was "picking up the remains of what had to be done...
...plan was amended to proserve the Nat Sci bypass, which allows students to avoid the lower level Gen Ed course in that area by taking two departmental courses. The Faculty voted, unanimously and without debate, to replace two committees--the standing committee on General Education and the special Committee on the Freshman Seminar program--with a new committee on General Education...
...bypass, Wendell H. Furry, professor of Physics, said last night was based "on the feeling that ordinary training provides enough information for the upper level courses." Students may now continue to take two departmental courses--whether or not these count for concentration--instead of the lower level Gen Ed courses to satisfy the Natural Sciences requirement...