Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...founders are still experimenting with unusual lighting effects. If you dance near one of the high frequency stroboscopic lights, your partner's smooth motion becomes a panorama of frozen positions superimposed on each other. Soon an IBM computer will be moved in to help control the blinking red and blue lights. And if you take your date over to a corner, about all you can see in the ultraviolet light is her glowing blouse and nail-polish...
This was also the experience President Truman had in mind when--at a period when the United Nations was incapable of protecting Greece and Turkey from aggression -- he said: "We shall not realize our objectives unless we are willing to help free peoples to maintain their free institutions and their national integrity against aggressive movements that seek to impose upon them totalitarian regimes...
...write in the hope that this letter will encourage a frank discussion of these problems. If such a discussion clarified American objectives in Vietnam, it might help reverse the drift, which is now from confusion toward disaffection. To this end, we submit for your consideration some of the questions now agitating the academic community...
...Knights of Columbus Games at the Garden two weeks ago were a little help. Schoonover finished fifth in the high jump at 14 ft. 6 in. and he was up against some fine competition. Mel Hein was at 16 ft. But it was Huvelle, McKelvey, Burns, and Baker who got the most practice...
...Business School acquired last year two new small, and one completely remodelled building. Following a pattern set in the School's original buildings, they were named for Secretaries of the Treasury--this time, because of the interest and help of friends, for the recent Secretaries, Douglas Dillon, George Humphrey, and Robert Anderson. But the School seeks other buildings and additional capital both in the long and in the short range. The amount of the School's annual costs of operation covered by income from endowment is exceptionally small. In an effort to improve this situation, Dean Baker has been trying...