Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost all the groups, the students, themselves, chose Vietnam for the first discussion. Many students saw the struggle in terms of the problems of racial conflict...
Sensing a flap of sorts, Pusey referred the decision on Watson's work to the Harvard Corporation. It was the first time that University officials outside of the Press chose to review the editorial judgment of Wilson and the Syndics. Even though the Press continued to stand behind Watson's manuscript, the Corporation decided to reject it. In Pusey's words, publication would have meant "taking sides in a controversy among scientists." Pusey and the Fellows forgot that any work--whether a memoir, detached scholarship, or pastoral poetry--is bound to offend somebody, even a good scientist...
...biweekly newspaper, the Graduate Bulletin. But he was not yet a Council member. Last month, then-president Budelis promised that Schwartz would be appointed to fill the next vacancy on the Council. By early February, however, the referendum controversy was steaming. In a surprise reversal in-coming president Munyon chose Jon L. White, Budelis's roommate, not only to take Schwartz's place on the Council, but to immediately assume the job of secretary...
What seems more likely is that Munyon chose not to add to the activist forces, and that no list of lame excuses can serve to justify White's astounding rise in fortune...
...President himself knows why he chose to remain silent. If he had submitted a specific plan, Russell probably would have gotten it included in the compromise version. Throughout the summer, even after the bill had become law, Russell offered to give any specific random system "expeditious" hearings before his Senate committee. Still, the President remained silent, except to express his displeasure at the lottery...