Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your Tuesday editorial "No More Bricks" exhibits the most unbelievable shortsightness. Your claim is that Radcliffe should spend no more money on new dormitories because students today demand off-campus housing. This is merely a thinly cloaked desire to drive away many low income families from the Cambridge area since cartels of Harvard and Radcliffe students are willing to pay exorbitant rents that no working family man can afford. On the contrary, Radcliffe should continue its dormitory building program, and should require that students live on campus...
...organizing demands" on ROTC and amnesty were proposed by Jeffrey C. Alexander '69, vice-president of the HUC and a participant in the sit-in at Paine Hall, and were approved by a large majority. Prior to the vote, several speakers argued that the group should demand only equal punishment for all, rather than total amnesty. One speaker called the demand for no punishment an implied threat to the Administration, adding, "If you're going to threaten the Administration, you've got to have something to threaten them with. We can't say that the Administration can't punish...
...majority of those at the meeting, however, appeared to feel that since the group would strongly oppose any punishment which the Administration handed down, a demand for equal punishment was implicitly a demand for no punishment...
There is one remaining problem in Segal's work. Where to put it? Subway in the corner of a living room would impose the clickety-clack of rails maddeningly on the inner ear. The woman emerging from her shower stall obviously expects privacy. Each of them seems to demand a room...
...outlook for capital spending has improved largely because general business conditions are looking better. Demand for steel is strong; output has climbed for four straight weeks. Sales of 1969-model autos have been racing at a record annual rate of 10.3 million cars (see story, p. 94). New factory orders rose 4% in October, the biggest improvement this year. Sales of new houses are increasing despite punitive price tags and pumped-up mortgage rates. Housing starts will probably rise from 1,290,000 in 1967, to 1,500,000 this year. Building-industry analysts anticipate about...