Word: drives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than a company across the canal?and it would be slaughtered. The reason is that the Russians, anxious to avert a fourth round of the war, have carefully not supplied Nasser with the wherewithal for an offensive strike: the amphibious transports, armored personnel carriers and four-wheel-drive trucks that he would need in order to cross the Sinai. Underscoring their concern that the artillery battles might get out of hand, the Soviets last week dispatched a note to Cairo declaring that the cease-fire should be "strictly carried...
...jail. At Johns Hopkins, students demonstrated against military research and recruiting on campus. In Indiana, state troopers used Chemical Mace on Purdue demonstrators. At Washington's Howard University, federal marshals fired tear-gas rockets to flush 100 protesters from six buildings they had seized as part of a drive to make the predominantly Negro school more "relevant" to the capital's black community. The worst incidents occurred at Manhattan's City College, which became a battleground of racial violence (see story below...
...only by training people for social roles but by performing Government research and supporting official policies. Thus, universities now share the blame for causing the nation's ills. The activists believe that they are merely redirecting the American university, yoking it to needed reforms and to the drive for a better society...
...legs") in use on the frontier. They constituted the most dramatic revolution in sheer firepower since the invention of the musket. Colt revolvers were fast and reliable. In superior hands they could regularly hit a five-inch circle at 50 yards. At 100 yards, the Peacemaker could drive a bullet more than three inches into a pine plank. With such a weapon a skilled "shootist" became the most deadly single engine of extermination that the U.S. had seen until then...
...faculty met for over three hours both Tuesday the Thursday--with students attending at observers--to discuss the Committee proposal. At times, faculty members strongly criticized the student drive for grade reform, but the final vote on the proposal was nearly unanimous. Several outspoken faculty opponents of grade reform were not present at yesterday's meeting...