Word: fours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tribal elders were there because they wanted to learn the history of their Navaho ancestors. Others wanted to learn a trade. Many wanted further academic study toward a degree at a four-year college. But all had a particular pride in the first institution of higher education on any Indian reservation in the country...
Roessel says he will start new courses in any subject requested by students. There will be no pressure to meet a rigid two-year junior college timetable. "We will tell them, 'take your time,' " Roessel says. " 'If you need three years, or four, use them.' " After the college moves from its temporary location to its new campus near Tsaile next year, it will expand its enrollment of 357 to accommodate 1,000 students...
...world he hasn't been in long enough to learn about, and I'll show you a pest." He mocks student idealism with heavy-handed wit. "A concerned student is one who smashes the computer at a university, and an apathetic student is one who spends four years learning how to repair that computer." Asked if "qualified" 18-year-olds should be given the vote, Capp says easily, "Sure, it won't do a bit of harm to have two or three more people voting...
Negotiations are deadlocked at six of the nation's nine major airlines. Eastern and four other companies have asked the National Mediation Board to move in, but so far it has agreed to do so only at National Airlines, where I.A.M. members have called a wildcat strike. The mechanics gained some attention for their dispute last week by disrupting the National-sponsored invitational golf tournament in Miami. A union-hired plane trailing a banner that proclaimed "Don't Fly N.A.L." circled the course. Several strikers invaded the 17th green, traded blows with police and had to be bodily...
...only the Times drama critic but its dance critic as well. He revisits hits to make sure audiences are getting their money's worth. He often has simultaneous reviews in the same edition; once he had four, an event that occasioned a different kind of criticism-from management. They conspired to persuade him to relinquish one job, but ended by giving him two offices, one in which to compose ballet reviews, the other for batting out theater pieces-carried throughout the U.S. on the N.Y. Times News Service...