Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...required to decide whether infractions are of a "serious nature" and actually "contributed to substantial disruption of an institution's administration," whereas the original House form would have cut off the funds without a hearing or intervention by college officials), but the measures passed last week are still remarkably close to those initially asked for by Wyman in his impassioned House speech...
Since the Russian invasion, the Czech press has carried its battle for freedom to extraordinary lengths. Many top newsmen, fearing for their lives, have fled to the West, but others have carried on. After Russian troops marched in to close them down, most Czech papers published underground editions. Television newscasters managed to broadcast from studios over portable army transmitters, and C.T.K., the government news agency, opened a clandestine telex service. Editors sneaked past Russian surveillance to confer with Dubček's cooperative aides, promised to try to appease the Russians by imposing self-censorship...
...among individuals of the same species. Result: the chance that any two people (except identical twins) will have the same "antigenic constitution" is virtually nil. Transplanters have tried to get around that by matching donor organs with recipients whose antigen patterns seem fairly similar, but these resemblances are not close enough to exclude the rejection mechanism...
...requires them constantly to prowl the pawnshops in search of cheap replacements for broken instruments. "We started using it," says Townshend, "as a lever to get the audiences to come, and then, we hoped, dig the rest of the music." Now the audiences are coming. The Who rank close behind the Beatles and the Rolling Stones as one of England's leading rock groups, and they are rapidly winning frenzied admirers in America as well. Still, the music seems overshadowed by the violence...
...Front. The elite "billion-dollar club" of companies with annual sales of $1 billion or more was joined by six newcomers, now boasts a total membership of 38. Their combined sales of close to $69.9 billion represent 45% of the total for all 200 listed...