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By the end of the Faculty meeting, the convocation's organizers found themselves clinging to an idea whosetime had suddenly passed. The convocation-the long-planned alternative to a formal Faculty vote on the war resolution-had its Parliamentary legs swept away when the war vote passed.

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Gathering Shows Legislative Woes | 10/8/1969 | See Source »

Procaccino's average man and Marchi's forgotten New Yorker are of course political stereotypes. In flesh and blood terms, they are many people. Some live on meager incomes as pensioners, clinging to the frame houses that represent a lifetime's work. "People tend to forget," says Marchi, "that there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: NEW YORK: THE REVOLT OF THE AVERAGE MAN | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

PROTEST to the French student has always been a tradition tinged with romanticism and infused with folklore. Barricading the narrow streets of the Latin Quarter, arching cobblestones on the heads of the "flies," clinging to your comrade and meeting the police charge, even getting blackjacked and later displaying your "wounds...

Author: By Franklin D. Chu, | Title: French Student Protest: Losing the Romanticism Amidst the Chaos | 9/29/1969 | See Source »

Most well-scrubbed Americans would be horrified at the idea of having mites crawling around on their faces. Yet almost half the U.S. population may play host to microscopic parasites, which reside in the facial hair of jet-setters and slum dwellers alike. This is the finding of Manhattan Ophthalmologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parasitology: An Uninvited Guest | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

Only in Darkness. Following Coston's procedure, Jacobson plucked several eyelashes from each adult patient. The microscope showed that of 300 patients, 120 had at least one Demodex clinging to their eyelashes, and some had dozens. The mite appears to favor older people (60% of those over 55 were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parasitology: An Uninvited Guest | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

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