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Word: froing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fulltime students at present to 35,000 by 1970. The second, Erindale, will open across town next fall. The satellites are undergraduate commuter colleges that do not require students to attend any classes on the hemmed-in downtown campus, although some professors will have to shuttle to and fro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: A Satellite Built for TV | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...their homework. Eventually the counterpoint of questions and answers gets so wholly garbled that the dialogue sounds like one of those elementary conversation books for learning a foreign language. Then the play opens out into a kind of choreographic ritual of modern life, urban herds shuffling to and fro, the commuter's lock step, a cocktail party. It is apparent that interviewers and applicants alike need help: instead of the bread of life, they are fed vacuous cliches by intellectual bubble-gum blowhards representing the church, state, politics and psychoanalysis. One of the self-frocked priests of the Freudian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Air-Conditioned Blightmare | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

Oregon's race for a U.S. Senate seat is the nation's only major contest in which the central issue is the Viet Nam war. The campaign-like the conflict itself-has seesawed to and fro. Last week handsome, two-term Republican Governor Mark O. Hatfield, 44, who has expressed grave misgivings about the Administration's conduct of the war, and Democratic Representative Robert Duncan, 45, a snuff-dipping ex-seaman who stands foursquare in favor of the President's policies, were running almost dead even. A check by Pollster John Kraft showed Duncan with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oregon: Monsoon Season | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

...Labor Department estimated San Francisco's unemployment rate at five per cent. The August rate for the national civilian labor force was three and nine-tenths per cent. The jobless rate fro Negro males in the San Francisco area is triple the white rate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Guard Keeps San Francisco Peace | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

Meantime, Sculptor Frazier was using vacuum cleaners to inflate his 50-ft.-tall "soft skyscraper," attended by scores of shoving children. "The fun is in the struggle," exhorted Art Critic Harold Rosenberg as the plastic building listed flaccidly to and fro and finally stood erect. With that, Frazier let it topple over on the beach, where, with cries of "Kill it!", the children ripped it to shreds in a scene right out of Lord of the Flies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resorts: Happening at the Hamptons | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

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