Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While cab drivers are frequent victims of crime, they are also frequent heroes-tipping off police to fights and robberies and often joining in the pursuit and capture of lawbreakers. Two months ago, while honoring 75 of them for heroism, Police Commissioner Howard Leary called them "the city's second police force...
...equally frequent refrain is "the American commitment," as he calls it. "The basic American commitment is not to affluence, not to power, not to all the marvelously cushioned comforts of a well-fed nation, but to the liberation of the human spirit, the release of human potential, the enhancement of individual dignity," he says. "We decided that what we really wanted was a society designed for people." And within that society, there must be room for diverse talents. In his book Excellence, he wrote: "The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness...
...Tapering Off. A frequent commuter to Washington, Gardner served as consultant to a tureen-full of alphabetized Government agencies, won the Air Force's Exceptional Service medal, its highest civilian award, for his advisory work. As chairman of the Educational Panel of the Rockefeller Broth ers Special Studies Project, he wrote a report whose title was later to become a catch phrase of the early '60s: "The Pursuit of Excellence." He served on education task forces for Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, played a major role in drafting the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. That...
...School. Six of the Cliffies are at Harvard. The University of Pennsylvania Law School ranked second with 20 Harvard '66 students and one Cliffie. Eighty-four per cent of the Harvard graduates who applied to law school were admitted to at least one, and acceptances were almost twice as frequent for magna graduates as for non-honors...
Much of Western Europe has been seized by a fervor to expand higher education and to reform it along U.S. lines-interdisciplinary cooperation, more full professors, rotating departmental command. Italy's current five-year plan calls for a reorganization of universities, now beset with frequent strikes by students and teaching assistants. Many Europeans hope to emulate what a Common Market Eurocrat calls "the magic American mobility between campus, government and industry...