Word: classe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...venerable tactic. When the crowd is making for the Long Island Expressway, give the side roads a try. If everybody else in your class seems bent on applying to Yale, apply to Princeton. In political terms, the strategy called for Marchi to belittle his opponents' wild promises by citing the fiscal realities-he, too, would like to preserve the 20-cent subway fare, but he wanted New Yorkers to know that might not be possible. He, too, desired open enrollment at City University, but he alone of the candidates would acknowledge the possibility that money might not be forthcoming...
Harvard and M.I.T. chemistry professors yesterday expressed their approval of the Nobel Prize award. Paul D. Barllett, Erving Professor of Chemistry said, "I'm delighted to see it. It falls clearly in the class of giving the prize for a fundamental clarifying idea: this is very important for the development of chemistry...
...slipped behind the pace of almost every big country in Western Europe in construction per capita (see chart following page). Even the U.S.S.R. puts up more housing than the U.S., though the Soviets' prefabricated apartments are so cramped and shoddy that most would be unrentable to middle-class Americans. George Romney, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, calculates that new housing in the past four years has fallen more than 1,000,000 dwellings shy of the amount needed to keep up with population growth and losses from fires, storms and bulldozers...
...best known for his "Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of the Harvard College Classes of 1690-1760," of which 11 volumes appeared between 1933 and 1968. His remark years ago that, "If I live to be 80, I can get to the class of 1800" still stands. He set out to portray these early Harvard men "warts and all," and he observed that "Those who were hanged are just as important as the ones ordained." Of one early graduate, he wrote, "Certainly he achieved no distinction at Harvard beyond that which resulted from his participation in disorders...
...self-styled radical (beard), he skipped class but worked out on October 15. In "real life," he is majoring in Biochemistry, having switched from government, and does not go to football games. He rooms with two other runners and enjoys operating a bulldozer...