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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...draft, dropping out is a very good thing, both for the student and for the school." After a year or so of living in the big outside world, the student decides that either pumping books is preferable to pumping gas, in which case he returns, or else it isn't, in which case he stays away. For a long time this alternative remained Harvard's ultimate therapeutic trump card, a sign of flexibility the school pointed to with great pride. Director of the Bureau of Study Counsel William G. Perry often refers to himself as the "head of Harvard...

Author: By Jeffrey L. Elman, | Title: A Harvard Education: Does It Do a Student any Good? | 3/4/1968 | See Source »

...case-aide workers are probably not altruistic, but selfish, in the sense that they are very eager to prove something about themselves. But this effort to prove themselves is also an effort to grow and should not be seen in any other light than that. It isn't really selfishness. I guess, to want to grow, but it isn't altruism. They're not going in masochistically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sticking It Out As Case-Aides, PBH Volunteers Prove Themselves | 3/4/1968 | See Source »

...evidently wants people to think that he isn't a politician at all. Anyone who meets him is impressed by his low-keyed good nature and with what could be an almost deliberate effort to be unpretentious. Spong seems to enjoy telling stories about the Senate or about his campaigns in Virginia more than analyzing his role in changing the political structure of the state...

Author: By Jack D. Burke jr., | Title: William B. Spong Jr. | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...isn't getting married" replaced "hello" last week in the telephone vocabulary of Jacqueline Kennedy's secretarial staff. The new salutation was pressed into service as a result of headlined rumors that Jackie was about to marry Lord Harlech, 49, former ambassador to Washington and Jackie's companion on her recent trip to Cambodia. Come the weekend, lady and lord were 3,000 miles apart, he in London and she on the ski slopes of Quebec's Mont Tremblant with Caroline and young John. The big crowds at Tremblant left Jackie to herself, but Lord Harlech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 1, 1968 | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...shredder. With a budget of $185,000 a show, M:I has no trouble coming up with an astonishing array of the latest devices of nuclear-age espionage. Says Staff Writer William Read Woodfield: "We like to think that the CIA is awake and watching us. The CIA isn't saying. But just in case, shred this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programs: Mission Possible | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

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