Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cocos Islands have posed a troubling question for Australia: whether or not to impose the benefits -and the ills-of civilization on the islanders. Britain ceded sovereignty over the islands to Australia in 1955, and Canberra simply assumed that the Malays were content with Clunies-Ross rule. No one knew for sure, of course; the present ruler, John Clunies-Ross, a fifth-generation descendant of the islands' original settler, forbade the Australian administrator to set foot on Home Island, which he considers his private domain. Canberra's comfortable ignorance was jolted three years ago when a group...
...Florida's president Stephen C. O'Connell has schemed with the university's Board of regents to change. The Alligator from a student newspaper to a university newspaper. He would have an editor publisher appointed by the administrator the appointee would in turn have total control over the editorial content of the Alligator and would be empowered to name and dismiss all editors and staff members. The first editor publisher designated by O'Connell as a seven year employee of the university who has lately been actin director of student publications a technical and management position...
...Connell's efforts delayed briefly by the Regents last week followed an opinion handed down last April by Florida's attorney general which held that a university president lacked authority to censor or control the editorial content of a campus newspaper. Apparently O'Connell feels that a change is in order. The arrogance of his contention in challenging the state attorney general and trying to circumvent basic tenets of an unfettered press-is amplified by the trivial nature of the issue from which the controversy first arose...
...departments, and some observers attribute the internal squabbling about Gund Hall to Sert's lack of control. Kilbridge, however, keeps a firm grip on the various factions, a policy that induced three GSD professors to bring grievance charges against him in early 1971. So the design firm had to content not only with usual production delays, but with the shaks at the GSD itself...
Even the police remained restrained and apparently content to stroll away the summer's heat. There were no large scale arrests that characterized previous summers, and little of the keep-em moving tactics that annoyed people in the past when they just felt like stopping and watching the world...