Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Michael Gill, senior resident of Whitman Hall who originated the idea, took the bus on a trial run at 7 p.m. last Tuesday. The bus made a complete circuit, including stops, in less time than will be necessary in order to stay on schedule...
...Week was something of a coup for anti-administration radicals at Yale. Although President Kingman Brewster agreed in theory with the idea of a coeducation week, he wanted it held much later--maybe in January or February. Unable to get any immediate cooperation from "The King," a coalition formed of student government types, Yale SDS, and some of the younger college masters went ahead with plans to bring on the girls. When it became apparent to Brewster that he was being presented with Coeducation Week as a fait accompli he cut off communication with the organizers...
ROTC is based on the notion that the country's universities should serve the needs of the warfare state. As long as American universities continue to accept these institutions on their campuses they legitimize the idea that the universities and the military should work hand-in-glove in fighting the Cold War. And Harvard, as the oldest and most prestigious of American universities, has the strongest impact of all in this regard. The Army, by staying here no matter how few students in its program, appears to have learned this lesson far better than Harvard...
...scribbled a note on a piece of paper and handed it to Minister of Information Joël le Theule. It said simply that a communique would be issued at 7:45 that evening. Neither Le Theule nor any other Cabinet official, except perhaps Couve, had a clear idea of what the President would do. Typically, De Gaulle did not make his decision known to his Cabinet or talk about his solution. He said only, "Thank you, gentlemen. I will take your views into consideration...
...idea for this program originated with Dr. H. Jack Geiger, 43, a onetime medicine reporter for the International News Service who decided that he could do more for his fellow men by becoming a doctor than by writing about doctors. While studying medicine at Western Reserve University in the mid-1950s, he read about medical centers for the poor that had long existed in Europe. Later he studied what he calls "social medicine" (the concept of illness as an environmental as well as a medical problem) at South Africa's only medical school primarily for blacks, at the University...