Word: half
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When we last left the Ramparts Boys they were in a pretty tight fix: the phones were out, there was no more booze in the closet and, worst of all, they owed a million and a half dollars to angry creditors-including their archenemy, the Internal Revenue Service. When Leader Warren Hinckle III wrote the whole thing off, it sure looked like the end for the gang's magazine...
...issue last week was the supposed way out: a "dual admission" plan hammered out during 37 hours of nonstop negotiations between a faculty committee and minority-group students. Under the plan, which would start in the fall of 1970, half of the freshmen class (including slum whites) would be admitted from ghetto areas "without regard to grades." After tutoring, they could go on to earn degrees in perhaps six or eight years. A key goal: promoting hope and incentive in slum high schools. Arthur Bierman, a physics professor and faculty negotiator, who initially opposed the whole idea, was eventually sold...
...Nearly half a century late, Florida has finally got around to ratifying the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave women the right to vote. The amendment went into effect in 1920, but at that time Florida's legislators refused to go along with the rest of the states in suffering female suffrage. The ungentlemanly gesture was utterly unavailing, for as soon as an amendment is ratified by three-fourths of the states, it is binding throughout the U.S. In a bow to Florida's League of Women Voters, which this year is celebrating its 30th anniversary...
...tested his theory on a group of prisoners, some known to be violent, others tractable. On the average, the violent subjects stopped him at a distance of three feet, and showed markedly increasing tension and hostility as the circle shrank. The nonviolent subjects let him approach to half that distance. Moreover, the two areas of insulating space differed radically in shape. That of the violent prisoners bulged to the rear-an avenue of approach that they regarded as unusually menacing. The nonviolent subjects' personal zones were nearly cylindrical...
...morals who spend the rest of their lives promiscuously producing illegitimate children for the welfare rolls. Partly true; partly not. According to a recent study of 205 New York City mothers (10% of them white), which was reported last week at the National Conference on Social Welfare, fewer than half of them turn out that way. As Mignon Sauber, research director of the Community Council of Greater New York, points out, the conventional picture of these women is vastly exaggerated...