Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Zavelle said the Coop had polled its employees as to their attitudes about the Moratorium. "Almost all those of college age said they wanted to participate, but the high school and older help were afraid they would lose their pay," he said...
...issues whole and forced on them a half-hearted legal defense. The story of the trial becomes almost absurd as we see Sloane Coffin's lawyer arguing that if his client did in fact aid and abet the burning of draft cards, this did not hinder Selective Service but help it, since all draft card violators were to be immediately reclassified as I-A meat on the hoof...
...School of Education will not hold regular classes on October 15. Ed School students will hold open workshops at 7:30 p.m. on October 13 and 14 at Larson Hall for elementary and secondary school teachers and student teachers in the Boston area to help them prepare classes about Vietnam for October 15. A videotape of classrooms using the Vietnam curriculum will be shown, and James C. Thomson, assistant professor of History, will lecture on East Asia. Ed School students will canvass on October 15 in Charlestown and East Boston with the law students...
After years of teetering precariously from one crisis to another, the international monetary system has begun to display surprising strength and adaptability. Late in July, members of the International Monetary Fund agreed to create a new form of money, called Special Drawing Rights, that will help finance the-continued growth of world trade. In August, France devalued the franc without causing any real tremors. Last week the value of one of the world's most important currencies, the West German mark, was established not by government fiat but by the free market...
...indefinite official leave in Switzerland. The chaos is really the result of the repeal of the Dubček and Sik reforms, and of the fact that Czechs today commonly proclaim: "We are not going to work for the Russians." The Soviets, for their part, are doing nothing to help. They are withholding sorely needed credits until political "normalization" is complete...