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Word: fasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Housing Committee of Harvard SDS, which met yesterday afternoon, has decided to make a survey of Cambridge housing to find out how high rents are and how fast they are going up. The results of the survey, tentatively scheduled for completion by the end of the semester, will be turned over to the community housing convention. Though SDS hopes to have some 40 students working on the survey, only about ten showed up yesterday

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Harvard Answers Cambridge Housing Charges | 9/28/1968 | See Source »

...that any student could choose to go to any school he wanted; it seemed like basic American individual choice and everything good. But in the South, it posed an immediate danger: it meant that BLACK CHILDREN would be coming to the WHITE SCHOOLS. The white South had to act fast...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: High School Graduates Who Can't READ?! | 9/28/1968 | See Source »

There is evidence that other teams are pointing for Harvard in hopes of breaking McCurdy's string of fourteen consecutive dual meet victories. If Hardin, Pottetti, Shaw and company are still stiff from Wednesday's race, or if several of Harvard's backup scorers get left behind in a fast start, there could be a real scramble for the finish...

Author: By Richard T. Howe, | Title: Varsity Harriers Race Providence, UMass in Meet | 9/28/1968 | See Source »

Last week Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin, using an analogy of which he is fond, likened the economy to an automobile that has merely cut its speed from 90 m.p.h. to 70-still much too fast for safety. "Business at present has a strong inflationary bias," Martin said. If prices keep on shooting up at their 4½%-a-year rate, he added, the Reserve Board may even feel forced to return to a tighter money policy. Commerce Secretary C. R. Smith warned that unchecked inflation could "reduce us to a second-class trading power" by pricing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Still Too Fast for Safety | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...business district in Rockville Center, N.Y. A block or two away lies the local station of the Long Island Railroad where commuters come and go on their way to work in Manhattan. No one on an LIRR train ever sees the Sunset, for the trains move too fast for passengers to catch a glimpse of the small...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Long Island Sunset | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

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