Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert H. Ebert. dean of the Medical School, announced this week that the Med School will remain open October 15, although faculty members may cancel their individual classes. As usual, students will not be required to attend classes...
...remains inevitable so long as the Concorde and the Soviet TU-144 are in the air. Yet their threat to U.S. technology could prove to be a mirage. In 1964, Britain tried to cancel the Concorde because of rising costs, but was prevented from doing so by Charles de Gaulle's insistence that Britain live up to its contract. France's new President Georges Pompidou may be more amenable to the idea. As for the Soviet entry, it is largely an unreal threat; no Western airline could risk relying on Russia for spare parts...
Strangely, this schizophrenic existence is essentially painless. Unlike the Quixote legend, illusion rarely distorts the ongoing process of reality. Similarly, reality makes no effort to cancel out the shadows of illusion. Richard Nixon's rhetoric about peace and honor frees him to fight his protracted little war, while exponentially proliferating talk of justice and the people permit us to support our tacky revolutions. As long as the two camps don't come into contact, no problem...
...futile effort to quiet matters, Chief Petersen and Mayor Lee Stenzel resigned. Their action prompted Cunningham's group to cancel a planned rally, but failed to prevent shooting. Automatic rifle fire crackled through Pyramid Courts and two Negroes were slightly wounded...
...over the Nixon demonstration ended when Nixon himself, feeling that he would lose votes in direct proportion to the number of people he talked to, decided first to hold a press conference in a Boston hotel, then to hold a private reception in another hotel, and then finally to cancel the entire Boston trip. He was no fool...