Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peace. A nine-chapter BBC adaptation of Tolstoy's massive novel that runs a total of 14 and a half hours. Part one introduces the lengthy list of characters while war with Napoleon brews offstage. CH.2. 8 p.m. Color...
...stated that he believes students should be allowed to participate in ROTC as an "extracurricular activity." If he had taken the trouble to look up the law establishing ROTC (Title 10, Chapter 103, Section 2102), he would have found that the program must be adopted "as part of the curriculum," and that "the senior commissioned officer...(must be) given the academic rank of professor." He would have further found that the program must be "prescribed and controlled" by the military, while Harvard requires that extracurricular organizations "make all policy decisions without obligation to any parent organization" (Handbook of Undergraduate Regulations...
...world's worst single source of pollution right smack in the middle of their fields is a little hard to take. The thirty-five farmers who met in the school house decided that something had to be done about the power plant, and so they organized themselves as a chapter of the only group which has had any success in fighting for the rights of low and moderate income Arkansas, a group called ACORN (Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform...
Similar pressures are being exerted in localities from coast to coast. New Jersey's Women on Words and Images, an offshoot of a local chapter of the National Organization for Women, has sold 20,000 copies to date of its anti-stereotyping booklet, Dick and Jane as Victims. The 57-page study analyzes 2,760 stories in 134 schoolbooks and concludes that boy-centered stories outnumber girl-centered stories 5 to 2, that positive traits are monopolized by male characters, and that the books show 147 different career possibilities for boys but only 26 for girls...
...final chapter, picking up fragments of testimony and Ervin committee detail not covered in the earlier narrative, is rushed and superficial. Gambling, the authors even wrote that the conspiracy trial of John Mitchell and Maurice Stans opened in New York City; in fact it was postponed. Watergate is an unfinished story. This book, however, bears brisk witness to an important fact: it is far too early to forget or forgive. · Ed Magnuson