Word: fall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nationwide committee of college newspaper editors and class presidents called this week for a one day "moratorium on 'business as usual'" at American universities this fall to protest the continuation of the war in Vietnam...
HISTORY. I came to Harvard in the fall of 1965. It was a crisp fall and quite russet, if I remember correctly. Two falls before, John Kennedy was shot dead in the middle of a Biology test. A girl came running into class hysterical to tell us. A few of us stayed to finish up our mollusca; then they let us out early. The summer before, I was a civil rights worker in Alabama. In those days, we believed that the government could solve all of our problems, and that we were the good guys and the government...
Menace and Threat. The success of "As I See It"-and of the previous Children's Theater productions-stems from an approach that is all too rare in children's programming: "Treat children as people," says Executive Producer George Heinemann, "and everything else will fall into line," Too many children's shows, he believes, are based on an adult's idea of what a child wants to see. They use the "age-old format of menace, threat, the chase and lots of action accompanied by noise to hold the youngsters' attention." The problem, he says...
...such California scenes as sunset over the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Diego skyline and surfing on the Pacific shores. During the first four weeks, the Bank of America received 60,000 orders for its scenic checks. Some Manhattan banks expect to offer full-color picture checks this fall...
...universities, we decided to do something other than riot," says Lauri Noreila, president of the student union at Helsinki's School of Economics. What he and his fellows did was organize a floating exhibition of Finnish products on a 10,000-ton ferry, then anchor it last fall beneath London's Tower Bridge. More than 100 firms participated in the "Finn-focus" exhibit, which produced $5,000,000 in export orders...