Word: drews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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February 27: Law School dean Derek C. Bok appointed a special committee of Law School professors to study a student plan for overhauling the school's grading system. The students who drew up the plan said they were uneasy about how much opportunity they would have to participate in the committee's study...
...revealed that they had testified before the CEP to ask that ROTC be retained at Harvard. The cadets said that ROTC courses" and that getting rid of courses" and that getting rid of courses" and that getting rid of ROTC would restrict students' freedom of choice. Meanwhile, the HUC drew together a panel for an open meeting on ROTC late in the week. Representatives of several ROTC standpoints--including Dean Ford, Rogers Albritton of the SFAC, James Q. Wilson of the CEP, and Hilary Putnam--all agreed to talk on the panel...
When the academic year 1968-69 began in September, both Kaplan and the radical members of HUC who often drew his Kennedy liberalism to the left realized that the Council lacked legitimacy to do anything; working on that assumption, they decided to do everything...
...elect Tom Bradley," he said at one point, "would be an invitation to violence in this city." Burt Lancaster campaigned for Bradley; Yorty called the actor a "militant extremist." John Wayne hailed the mayor as the man needed in these "dangerous times." Ignoring the fact that Bradley drew support from such respectable, centrist sources as the Los Angeles Times, the Democratic national leadership and Republican Congressman Alphonzo Bell, Yorty nevertheless repeatedly equated his opponent with the horrors of black and Red revolution...
...rooms that drew Fielding's closest scrutiny were the inside singles, known in the trade as "the mother-in-law rooms." They are, he explains, "the lowest common denominator. You learn a lot about the hotel from just a glance at them." Tour over, Fielding cordially thanked the assistant manager, ducked back outside to his car. "Let's do the usual, Mac," he told the chauffeur, who promptly drove around the corner and parked. Fielding pulled out a notebook and began scribbling away: "Concierge with hotel 43 years. Many improvements under way. When manager arrives, fireworks are expected." Tucking...