Word: fall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Vietnamese units and supplies, involve the same number of men but hundreds and sometimes thousands more of what Abrams prefers to call "initiatives" rather than "offensives." As Abrams explained it last week to TIME Correspondents Marsh Clark and Burton Pines in Saigon: "Since the beginning of last fall, all our operations have been designed to get into the enemy's system. Once you start working in the system that he requires to prepare his offensive operations, you can cause him to postpone his operations or to reduce their intensity or length...
...issue last week was the supposed way out: a "dual admission" plan hammered out during 37 hours of nonstop negotiations between a faculty committee and minority-group students. Under the plan, which would start in the fall of 1970, half of the freshmen class (including slum whites) would be admitted from ghetto areas "without regard to grades." After tutoring, they could go on to earn degrees in perhaps six or eight years. A key goal: promoting hope and incentive in slum high schools. Arthur Bierman, a physics professor and faculty negotiator, who initially opposed the whole idea, was eventually sold...
...regular curriculum. St. Louis University gives credit for free university courses in the psychology of social work and the future of Catholic higher education. On its own hook, Brown University recently adopted some of the far-reaching reforms that free universities commonly aim to stimulate. Beginning next fall, a Brown student will be able to plan his own interdisciplinary course of studies; the only requirement for a bachelor's degree will be "satisfactory" ratings in 28 courses (failures will not be recorded...
...ungentlemanly gesture was utterly unavailing, for as soon as an amendment is ratified by three-fourths of the states, it is binding throughout the U.S. In a bow to Florida's League of Women Voters, which this year is celebrating its 30th anniversary, the legislature decided to fall into step with the rest of the country. This time not one of the 167 legislators in the two houses had the temerity to oppose ratification...
They are: 1. Nuclear incineration for all of us, 2. drowning in the population niagara, or 3. choking in the filth of our own ecxrements-gases, noises, DDT, fall-out and other pollutions...