Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Patty has been killed, and the bank robber was an impostor. There is no evidence to support this dire supposition. It arose apparently because the bank photographs released by the FBI and published in the press are slightly out of focus, making it hard to identify her positively. But the FBI had access to all the bank photographs, and it is certain that the woman was Patty?a conclusion accepted by her parents...
Although MIT, a bit of an unknown quantity, could surprise with a good showing, the focus of the contest will be on the head-to-head battle between Radcliffe and B.U. The race shapes up as a real, honest-to-goodness grudge match between the two schools--each dislikes the other fiercely...
Mitchell Wolfe '74, a student coordinator for the proceedings, said yesterday that undergraduate discussions will focus on the future of Harvard. He said that as diverse an opinion as possible would be presented and that he hoped alumni "would become aware of the problems and benefits" of coeducation...
...spangled Icarus of the carnival circuit, gives young minibike owners potentially lethal delusions of grandeur. But now, during the lull in the great gas panic of '74, comes a 46-year-old Minnesotan and writer of computer manuals, who makes the motorcycle not only respectable but also a focus of mental and spiritual health...
Since then, the Faculty changed the Committee of Fifteen into the harsher Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, which became the focus of student protests when it disciplined protesters, and then, as student protests died, pretty much withered away. The Faculty Council now does most of the Faculty's legwork quietly and efficiently, and has become completely apolitical. Just last week, the council cancelled a scheduled Faculty meeting because there would have been nothing to discuss; it was the second meeting to be cancelled in the last three months. And when the Faculty does meet, it is back...