Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this ground, school officials placed 74 students on probation for their "forcible obstruction" of a Dow Chemical Company recruiter on campus (TIME, Nov. 3). Probation means that the students must attend all classes, cannot hold office in campus organizations or perform in a dramatic or musical production or compete in intercollegiate athletics...
...tough policy even extended to demonstrations that had nothing to do with the war. In Manhattan, a group of nature-lovers from City College of New York took their stand before a ditchdigger breaking ground for a new building that protesters claimed would destroy much of the remaining greenery on the crowded campus. C.C.N.Y. President Buell Gallagher watched disenchantedly for a while, then turned to city police and ordered: "Move in on them now." The police arrested 49 students, charged them with criminal trespassing...
...result, by a 2-to-l ruling, Kentucky's vagrancy statute was declared null and void because of vagueness. Louisville's loitering and disorderly-conduct ordinances went down on the same ground. An ordinance requiring permits for parades was found to contain no standards to guide the licensing authorities. A state law against criminal syndicalism included a ban on counseling an unlawful method to accomplish a political end; this, said the court, violated the First Amendment's free-speech guarantee. And since the state conspiracy law could be read to outlaw "such functions as peaceable assembly...
...investment is needed. Said the Sultan of Jogjakarta in Geneva to the businessmen: "The popular world view is that Indonesia is a treasure house of resources. I may inform you in all frankness that nobody-and that includes ourselves-knows exactly the wealth we have in and on the ground and in our seas. Indonesia is waiting for you to bring your advanced technology, your experience, your capital and your entrepreneurial spirit...
...their drive, Butcher and Seabrook operate in relaxed fashion, Butcher from his ground-floor brokerage desk, Seabrook from a pint-size office eight floors above. Butcher still swims daily in his suburban pool, plays tennis regularly. Seabrook, a model-railroad buff, raises horses and collects antique carriages (he has two dozen) at his 4,200 acre farm in Salem, N.J. He and his wife, former United Press Correspondent Liz Toomey (whom he met at Grace Kelly's wedding to Monaco's Prince Rainier), often slip into 18th century costume for champagne-sipping country outings amid the asparagus...