Word: drop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Narrowing the List. Wagner's entrance into the race is expected to add stability to the Democratic contest by inducing at least two of the seven other announced mayoral candidates to drop out in his favor. Wagner will have to face his rivals in the June 17 Democratic primary. His chances are no worse than those of Lindsay in the G.O.P. primary, where two conservative Republicans are challenging the mayor. Wagner presents a threat to Lindsay's renomination by the Liberal Party, which provided Lindsay's margin of victory last time. The Liberals have backed Wagner...
...cities-most notably Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Tampa and Dallas-Fort Worth-are now spending millions to create jet-age airports. At Tampa, for instance, travelers will park their cars in the terminal, then be whisked by "horizontal elevator" to departure gates. At other new terminals, cars or buses will drop passengers within 600 feet of the gate. Most radical and sensible of all is Los Angeles' plan to carry people via a subterranean transit system to planes on the runway and ready for takeoff...
...HAVE BEEN GETTING lusty cheers and jeers for a rueful little paragraph I recently wrote about student riots. The most eloquent (and savage) letter ended: "Drop dead!!!" Another diatribe was signed "Columbia Senior." I wish I knew where to send this reply to both: Dear...
...meetings progressed a number of Masters gave their reactions to the occupation and the administration response. Alan E. Heimert '49, Master of eliot House, expressed firm support for the three-day strike and a restructuring of the University, as well as student demands that the University drop criminal charges against demonstrators and there be a legal investigation of police behavior...
...order to force the crucial reconstitution of the Corporation. Though the Administration would not have been reduced to its present vulnerable state without the SDS initiative, the radicals cannot hope to dictate policy to all those who have new repudiated the Administration's action. In particular, the radicals should drop their demand that ROTC be immediately abolished and should join in demanding a student-faculty referendum that will be binding on the Corporation. As yesterday's meeting at Memorial Church showed, the issue is so divisive that to insist upon immediate abolition is virtually to guarantee that no broad-based...