Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scant hour after winging into Washington from South Dakota, Lawyer Joseph H. Botfum, 58-was sworn in on the Senate floor, replacing the late Republican Senator Francis Case. The diligent Dakotan helped found his state's first Young Republicans' chapter in 1934 and got Governor Archie Gubbrud's endorsement after rising to the lieutenant-governorship in 1960. No sooner was he in his seat than Bottum cast his first vote against a Democratic amendment to the NASA appropriations bill. Chuckled South Dakota's Senior Senator Karl Mundt: "It was a good start for a Republican...
Since I teach at Brandeis, I was naturally pleased at Eble's further remarks about it here and in his final chapter...
Eble devotes a chapter to the battle between faculties and administrations. Part of the trouble stems from the loss of students' zeal ("American students come reluctantly to learning"), compared with the old days when students controlled the colleges and levied fines on professors late to class. I might interject here that in Latin American students still sometimes gain control of their universities, but in a manner that would have shocked their medieval predecessors. In the U.S., at any rate, the colleges now have to provide "both impetus and direction" since today's students have "no clear idea where they...
...devotes a chapter to the many facets of college finances, and calls attention to the fact that only a third of the average budget goes for instructional costs. And he suggests how savings can be effected and more moneys obtained...
Guerrilla Methods, A.D.D.L. has quickly sprouted branches. In Los Angeles, one A.D.D.L. leader is Scientist Kent Gould, who complains, "We're all being reduced to numbers. Some place you've got to stop and take a stand." At Indiana University, the A.D.D.L. chapter has turned to guerrilla warfare. Interpreting the area code and seven digits as one huge number, they place calls by saying, "Operator, give me S. I. Hayakawa at four billion, one hundred fifty-five million, eight hundred forty-two thousand, three hundred and one." Growls Chapter Leader Frederick Litto, "If they want digits...