Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Franklin E. Mirer, teaching fellow in Chemistry, and an organizer of the course said that it will focus on the utilization of science in politically-oriented situations. The course's planners are preparing an outline, which they will submit to the Commitee on General Education for consideration at its April 16 meeting...
While Céline's earlier volumes were set against the corruption of pre-war France, Castle to Castle takes place in a special Nazi detention camp. The author's attention is focused, if flashes of sheet lightning can be said to focus, on the "Boche Baroque" fortress-prison of Siegmaringen. The time is late in the war. France has already been liberated by the Allies. At Siegmaringen, French collaborators (including Celine) are huddled together, fearful of R.A.F. bombs, of their German masters and, most of all, of one another. In this bedlam, swarming with bizarre characters...
Initiated by M.I.T. graduate students, the protest is being honored at M.I.T., Yale, Cornell, and 30 other universities. According to William Haseltine, graduate student in biology, coordinating the March 4th effort here, the one-day research stoppage and protest was designed not only to focus attention on military use of science but also to point out a need for a "more rational basis for the development of science...
...southern students going West to college. To try to encourage some of last year's students to return to their communities to contribute their skills to the development of that community, we are now trying to recruit as many of last year's students as possible to work with FOCUS in their communities. The program could be no more successful than if next year it is directed primarily by former FOCUS students...
...FOCUS will give away two dozen summer jobs tonight at the program's introductory meeting. Last year, FOCUS placed 86 low-income students in 25 colleges. The meeting is at 7:30 p.m. in Burr...