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...unanimously approved the policy report at a meeting Monday night. Author John Hersey's appointment last spring as Master of Pierson College at Yale was the focal point of the report. Daniel C. Goldfarb Jr. '66, president of the HUC, and Steve W. Simpson '66, chairman of the Dunster House Committee, discussed the appointment with Yale students, administrators, faculty members, and Hersey himself...
From all this, Hawkins assumes that Stonehenge was the focal point of an early British civilization. It was the calendar by which the Britons planted and harvested their crops, a shrine where they worshiped their gods and buried their dead. It was also a device that priest-rulers could have used to enhance their power. On the day or night that their stone computer predicted an eclipse, they might well have summoned their subjects to Salisbury Plain to observe a spectacle that terrorized most ancient peoples. When the eclipse started, the priests probably intoned the prayers that enabled...
...into a city park. The city is now negotiating to keep the handsome Federal Building as a training center for high school dropouts and the New York State Pavilion as an all-purpose theater. Other permanent fixtures are the Hall of Science and the heliport, which will become the focal point for an eleven-acre...
...Attorney General's speech served as a focal point for the conference, which was for the first time devoted entirely to the subject of "The Student in Higher Education." Ten panel discussions focused attention on topics ranging from the student's academic freedom to his role in educational policy planning...
...hunch that the next big push after civil rights and poverty would be in the area of international affairs. I thought about the possibility of having a new kind of program with the breadth and depth of the civil rights movement. But the problem was to find a focal point...Where is the logic of the present policy most vulnerable? What in foreign affairs was the equivalent of a Mississippi lunch counter...