Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coed Sleep-Out. On the normally casual campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, 113 students were arrested last week when they refused to leave a hallway outside Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe's office, protesting segregation in K.U. fraternities and sororities. At the University of Washington in Seattle, students were loudly objecting to forced membership in the student association. At the University of Chicago, 200 students shivered in wind-driven snow on the main quadrangle to sing freedom songs, while coeds threatened a "sleep-out" to protest curfew hours...
...physical derangements. A blind man, his white stick rattling frenetically, goes into a convulsive attack of "the crazies" as the city's noises slash unendurably at his brain. A girl (Linda Segal) is raped by a pair of subway toughs, and the agony of it is its casual lack of horror. Despite the madness and the hurt, Playwright Gagliano keeps a funny tongue in his head, and, after a fashion, even redeems his antihero...
...despite the casual air, there was nothing frivolous about the activity in that spinning silo. The Coriolis Acceleration Platform, as the Navy calls it, is being used as a reach into the future. In an experiment designed by Captain Ashton Graybiel, research director at the Navy's School of Aviation Medicine, Navy doctors are trying to find out what will happen to men when they venture into space on long interplanetary journeys. Cardiologist Graybiel suspects that the gravity-free condition in space may be bad for the heart and the rest of the circulatory system. But is it possible...
Tips on Tape. The O'Neil brothers are remarkably casual. Last week neither Jerry nor Tom could remember the name of their Schenectady newspaper. Says Jerry: "We give all the divisions a great deal of autonomy and just try to keep watch over the big picture. That's tough enough sometimes...
Aboard the freighter out of New York, Julian meets Cora Almeida. Slim, blonde, cool, casual, and effortlessly provocative, she is the American wife of the Brazilian politician who is the archenemy of Monteiro and the Massaranduba Concession. By the time Julian steps off the boat in the port city of Belem, he is enthralled. He is also neck-deep in Brazilian intrigue, for the Concession is not only a business deal but the political lever by which Monteiro and his party hope to gain control of the state government...