Word: felted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHILE the world waited anxiously for some promise of peace in Viet Nam, Associate Editor Ronald Kriss, who wrote this week's cover story, felt that he was entitled to some extra measure of impatience. The special publishing deadlines of a pre-election issue meant that all stories had to be written and edited at an accelerated pace; the probability of a bombing halt only compounded the need for speed. But Kriss, along with Senior Editor Michael Demarest and Researcher Mary Kelley, were as prepared as possible for the unpredictable. For months, they have been studying every nuance...
...about 70 soldiers crossed the canal and staged an ambush, killing two Israeli soldiers. But the most intricate theory had it that Nasser had been put up to it by his Russian advisers as a warm-up for an attempt to clear the Suez by force. No country has felt the pinch of the Suez shutdown more than Russia, which must send its ships around Africa to Asia in order to keep Hanoi supplied, among other things. The Russians have a dredge in the Mediterranean, and could send it into the canal with a destroyer escort, daring the Israelis...
...catalyst. We speeded up the reactions of people on both sides. We received support from the basketball team, the fencing team, the gymnastics team, and Hal and Olga Connolly. On the other hand, there were Randy Matson and Bob Seagren, who saw us as Berkeley radicals. They felt you represent the red, white, and blue for Grandma and apple pie and that...
...most campuses, highly vocal dissident groups make up a very small minority. Yet many of the issues they exploit are just grievances felt by the majority of students. The Report of the Commission on the Columbia University Riots, chaired by Harvard Law School's Archibald Cox, makes it clear that revolutionaries on campus may succeed in destroying a university if the grievances of the peaceful majority have not been...
...such a provision was felt necessary--and I am not at all certain that it was--I would have opposed mandatory cutoffs and given full discretion to the university...