Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prior to their graduation. The last movement of any force to protest the injustice of the administration was made by the Seniors at this time. They voted to refuse their diplomas and their parts in Commencement. But when the administration threatened never to give them their degrees if they chose not to accept them then, they capitulated. The last protest fell...
Jumpy and Pugnacious. In the end, Nixon chose a course between backing down by discontinuing the flights permanently, thus conceding the field to the North Koreans, and plunging into a military contest that the U.S. might not be willing to sustain. He announced that the flights would resume. "They will be protected," he pledged. While he refused to divulge details, it later appeared that fighter plane cover would be made available if needed-either from land bases in South Korea or from a naval task force that was being assembled, which will include several aircraft carriers...
Each Harvard House chose one candidate in elections held Wednesday through Friday. Freshmen chose a single candidate in the Union on Thursday. At Radcliffe, North House and South House chose candidates, while East House...
...programs are now involved in consumer protection. Although President Nixon has said little on the subject so far, he has disappointed consumer advocates by not naming Republican Mary Gardiner Jones, the leading consumer champion on the FTC, to replace Democrat Paul Rand Dixon as chairman. Last week, however, Nixon chose a new consumer assistant, and the reaction was almost entirely favorable. He picked Mrs. Virginia Knauer, 54, director of Pennsylvania's Bureau of Consumer Protection. A Republican stalwart, Mrs. Knauer probably could do without her new $28,000-a-year salary. She and her husband, Attorney Wilhelm Knauer...
...general lack of both consideration and communication at the most basic level was epitomized when the Faculty chose to postpone action on the Afro proposal in favor of going home to dinner...