Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FOLLOWING his opponent's strategy in 1960, Richard Nixon has found a missile gap to talk about. He charges that the Democratic Administration has let America stand still during the last eight years while the Soviets mass-produced ICBM's and by early next year the two countries will probably have the same number of missiles. Although he admits that a halt in the arms race would be desirable. Nixon insists that the United States cannot bargain with the Russians until it re-establishes its superiority in weapons...
Bobby Seals led an injury-riddled freshman cross-country team to a 27-28 victory Saturday over Brown in Providence. Top Crimson runners Mike Koerner and Dick Jergens were out with injuries, but Seals filled the gap by setting a new course record...
...freshmen harriers, handicapped by the absence of two top runners, edged out a 27-28 victory over the Brown frosh. Bob Seals helped fill the gap with his first victory of the season, breaking the course record set two years ago by Keith Colburn...
...emotional needs are tied to his past Urban industrial society increasingly fails to meet these needs." gritty native spirt is only one part Prescott's unique educational program. The college has junked traditional academic departments and installed a system of wide-ranging integrated courses that bridge the gap between humanities and the sciences. The curriculum concentrates on great ideas rather than an accumulation of facts. The object is to help each student create his own world view, relate classroom concepts to his own life and become what one school official calls "a cultural revolutionary...
...Really Dragged but Nothing Gets Me Down, is going from resentment to resistance. The book is an attempt to put a little chest hair on that artificial category of literature known as "young-adult novels." Hentoff injects such themes as Viet Nam, racism, generation gap, civil rights, drugs, black rage, white guilt and, for old times' sake, a touch of antiSemitism. Sex is still a nono, although the vocabulary is raunched up with such words as "bastard," "damn it," and "hard...