Word: givens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Colonel Hotchmutch, acting professor of Military Science, it will be "technically possible" for the majority of Army ROTC members to finish the program. He stressed that the determining factors will include the number of teachers he is given and the amount of extra work the students are willing to accept...
Reportedly, a number of these freshman were given financial aid by Harvard. Chase N. Peterson '52, dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, was not available yesterday for comment...
From the motorcycle subculture movies Hopper has brought rock music, but instead of The Ventures he has given us known songs by top rock artists. Attempting no structural integration between sound and image, his musical allusions are literary: Hoyt Axton's "The Pusher" after they make their connection, Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild" as they hit the road on their bikes. Billy and Wyatt travel through these pulsating songs the way they do the countryside--the Band, the Byrds, Dylan, Jimi Hendrix et al are employed as a musical landscape, part of the backdrop of the youth subculture...
...founders James Walsh, 52, and Robert D. Hayes, 68, were convicted by an Orange County jury after a five-week trial on charges ranging from conspiracy to grand theft; three others pleaded guilty. None received jail sentences, but they were placed on probation for up to three years and given fines as high as $7,000. Hayes and Walsh, among others, said that they would appeal on the ground that no criminal intent was involved, but their careers as tax consultants have already been ruined. ABC is virtually out of business...
M.T.A. officials vow that, given time, they can yet turn the ragged line into a modern system. That is possible; the Budd cars are a joy to ride in, when they are working. But the immediate prospect is for more trouble. Last week the M.T.A. pushed L.I.R.R. President Frank Aikman Jr. into early retirement, provoking charges from many commuters that Aikman is being made a scapegoat for the mistakes of Dr. William J. Ronan, the M.T.A. chairman, who is staying on. Aikman was replaced by Walter L. Schlager Jr., an executive from the New York City subway system. Harold...