Word: ends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they most admire John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Eugene McCarthy. Among leaders now active, they approve of McCarthy, Senator Edmund Muskie, Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, Eldridge Cleaver and-of all people-Richard Nixon. Apparently convinced that he is sincerely trying to end the war and reform the draft, two out of three freshmen expressed respect for the President. But given the capacity of small student minorities to disrupt campuses and bedevil presidents, that vote of confidence in Nixon is unlikely to cause euphoria in the White House...
Oldenburg sees the world with eyes as fresh and intent as a child's, and he notices everything. He has collected, for instance, stubbed-out cigarettes. "Everybody puts out a cigarette in a different way, and these are particularly nervous ones," he explains. "A fag end is a basic geometric form-a cylinder-that is altered by a very natural action when it is put out. This interests...
...fact, Nelson himself is toiling to make the nation's campuses erupt next spring-in a giant, peaceful teach-in about environmental evils. As he has been telling audiences across the country for the past month: "The new generation is not satisfied with coming out on the losing end of man's drive for progress and profit...
Dandy Walk. The onset of the epidemic coincided with the end of the summer floods. The worst in the country's history, they polluted municipal water supplies, damaged sanitation facilities and dotted the Hanoi area with myriad mud puddles. And even the smallest will do for A. aegypti-"the water in a stalk of bamboo is enough to get them going," says one authority. They are among the most urbanized agents of epidemic: they breed and live in or near human habitation and readily, even preferentially, bite man. To boot, they are all but exclusively daylight and twilight feeders...
Some of the criticism, of course, comes from Establishment friends of Profumo, who has been working hard at a social-welfare settlement in London's East End since resigning from public life. Class considerations aside, many in Britain simply feel that Profumo has earned the right to be let alone. Some also raised a broader question of the citizen's right to privacy, a right not guaranteed under British law. As politicians talked about such a statute, freewheeling Fleet Street winced. But Lord Devlin, retiring chairman of Britain's Press Council, told the newspapers that the issue...