Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dozen students standing in front of a small white-pillared building are shouting up at a 15-story Columbia dormitory, Carmen Hall. About half hold beer cans. Student heads stick out from every third window in Carmen and yell back. I am told that those on the ground are Jocks from "Beta" (the Jock fraternity). The Pukes in Carmen are egging them on. This scene has happened in altered form a couple of times before, I am told; and the Jocks are both serious and dangerous. To hear what they're yelling, we walk quietly (so they won't really...
...people who answer polls sometimes resort to artful lying. Though 80% tell interviewers that they will vote, only 65% do so. To prevent bias, interviewers ask trip-up questions ("When did you vote last?" "Where are you registered?"), and toss out roughly one-fifth of the respondents on the ground that they are unlikely to vote...
...modern challenge to infant baptism stems from several different arguments. A growing number of Roman Catholic thinkers now look on original sin as the universal weakness of man rather than a damning individual fault-which cuts the ground out completely from the need for infant baptism. Still others object to the "magical" implications of the baptism ceremony-namely, that a spiritual cleansing is achieved by the physical act of pouring a few drops of water on the infant's head. Many clerics argue that baptism has in effect been made a mockery by unchurched parents who want their child...
...from the $35-per-oz. gold price for monetary reserves. Still, the system's durability depends chiefly on how fast the U.S. regains control over its inflation and persistent balance of payments deficit. As last week's rise in interest rates showed, the U.S. is still losing ground in that battle...
...Negro Affairs' Black Power issue, its fourth number in four years, went on sale last week, after a year's struggle with finances and printing arrangements. It was worth waiting for. In the Journal's tradition, the issue contains no punditry, and covers some new, previously under-reported, undiscussed ground...