Word: fifteene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nature of the arcane arsenal's components has gradually been revealed. In the chemical-warfare category, one of the most lethal gases is Sarin (GB), which in heavy vapor doses attacks the victim's nervous system and reduces him to a convulsive mass before death occurs. Fifteen years ago, the commanding officer of the Army's Rocky Mountain Arsenal estimated that a single drop of the nerve gas in liquid form on the back of a man's hand could kill him in 30 seconds. Sarin has been improved since then. The Army also stocks mustard...
...voted once more to disrupt the next session of hearings by the Committee of Fifteen. Resolutions proposing various kinds of Commencement protests were discussed but none came to a vote...
...Committee of Fifteen held disciplinary hearings and heard testimony from several deans, but none of the students summoned to appear came to the hearings. A group of SDS members tried to get into the tenth-floor room in Holyoke Center where the hearings were going on, but locked doors and police guards kept them out. The students then ringed the center with a picked line...
...members marched once more to Holyoke Center in an attempt to disrupt the Committee of Fifteen's disciplinary hearings. They rode elevators to the tenth-floor, but they got no further than the hallway outside the elevator. There they read a statement to a few of the Faculty members on the committee and then left. Later they went to University Hall and argued with acting dean Edward Mason for about half an hour...
Afro members demanded that the Faculty vote on their demands at its next meetings. SDS members voted to boycott elections for student representatives to the new "Committee of Fifteen...