Word: idea
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Surgoinsville Interested Citizens' Committee" (SICK) received scores of responses. Sixteen physicians were among those who wrote, inquiring about setting up practice in Surgoinsville. By last week, the town had narrowed the candidates down to four, and it hopes to have its new doctor soon. "We had no idea that we could unleash such a landslide of publicity and reaction," Mr. Button says. The ad, he feels, also made the "plight of other small doctorless communities a matter of wide public knowledge...
...have no idea how many people want to be the first to say that they're against the war." Ptashne said. "The problem is that they have trouble saying it on the floor of the Faculty. Their solution was to hold a convocation instead...
Calls for an informal vote on the war resolution-the original purpose of the convocation-came up several times. But they were regularly punctuated by speeches like White's and comments by a group of Faculty members who thought the whole idea...
Thomas C. Schelling, professor of Economics, said that the convocation was "a crummy idea." As a more appealing alternative to this "poor and demeaning way" of sensing Faculty opinion, he suggested the convocation planners call another meeting on October...
Once the convocation idea was defeated, it became apparent that the Faculty had to vote one way or the other, on a highly political issue. At least for the 50 Faculty members who supported the withdrawal resolution in the end, but had not originally wanted to approve it on he floor of the Faculty, the question of the propriety of debating Vietnam policy had been settled. They voted for the resolution and gave it a total of 255 votes-24 more than the combined total of no's and abstentions...