Word: following
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of two months to puzzle out a revision of Harvard's language requirement, and the proposal that goes to the Faculty next week drips with evidence of a long debate's compromise. The plan to shift the requirement to one full course in the freshman year doesn't follow the HPC's recommendation to see the rule junked completely, nor will it please those who think Harvard already asks too little foreign language knowledge of its undergraduates. But the proposal is a logical and ingenious approach to an impossible situation and therefore deserves Faculty approval...
With his famous other hand, Johnson signaled that the U.S. was not going to accept the North Korean action meekly. Accordingly, he called up 14,787 Air Force and Navy Reservists, mobilized 372 inactive aircraft, hinted that some ground troops might follow, and thus released hundreds of operational war planes for service in Japan and South Korea. Ironically, the Korean crisis thus gave Johnson an unsought dividend by enabling him to activate reserve units-a move he had seriously contemplated to alleviate serious shortages in Viet Nam but had rejected as too risky politically...
...international waters." She maintained her course at two-thirds speed (8 knots), with the PT boat never very far away. An hour later, three more North Korean vessels came slashing in from the southwest. One was a 30-knot, Soviet-built subchaser, the others 40-knot PT boats. "Follow in my wake," signaled one of the small vessels. "I have a pilot aboard." The Korean boats took up positions on Pueblo's bow, beam and quarter. Two MIG jets screamed in and began circling off the American vessel's starboard...
Tougher Policies. Though Clifford handled questions from the committee with notable finesse, there was no mistaking that he planned to follow policies that will be tougher, and more palatable to senior military experts on Capitol Hill, than were McNamara's. Clifford emphatically endorsed a program of "nuclear superiority" vis-a-vis Russia; McNamara had advocated a program of "nuclear parity." Without committing himself, Clifford also supported such congressional pet projects -which McNamara opposed-as development of an advanced manned bomber to replace the B-52 and construction of a greatly expanded nuclear fleet of warships. He also expressed serious...
...quatrains which follow are all missing one scintillating line. Identify the song, the singer, and cite the missing line. The title and the singer are each worth one point and the missing line is worth two. Total possible score: 396 points, Highest scorer wins a prize beyond his or her wildest dreams...