Word: item
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee held a special meeting Thursday with the new course its only item of business...
...result of a federal law passed this last session, funds will be cut off as of July 1, 1968 unless the state provides birth control information and service to both married and unmarried women.) Additionally, and almost humorously, the Massachusetts law prohibits the pharmacist from selling any item he knows is for contraceptive purposes; condoms, as everyone knows, are for sanitation and that is stated on the package. And spermicidal foam is a lubricant. It might be useful to investigate the possibilities of using the pill as flavoring in milk...
...minute gesture or item, such as the pencil reproduced in actual size on this page, can sometimes acquire great value. That is just what happened when a voluntary organization asked G.I.s in Viet Nam what their most-wanted items were. Those needs were modest-such things as a pair of dry socks and some writing material. TIME provided the tiny pencil, which the Christian Reform Laymen's League included in 200,000 packets to Viet Nam. Surprisingly, the minipencil is serving purposes far beyond postcard writing. Its wooden shaft, wrote one Marine, is being used to clean the hard...
Last week's cleanup, titled "The Thing in the Spring," was not a headline project. It was hardly a billion-dollar item and scarcely caused much of a dent in New York City's Augean malaise. But, along with dozens of similar efforts across the nation, it demonstrated-even as Congress balks at the billion-dollar programs that are truly needed-that individual hands and hearts are committed to alleviating the wretchedness of the inner city...
Chris Hart, a sophomore, wrote the third item on the bill, vet another modern work called Play, a title which has been pretentious for several years now Hart, who oddly enough directs and stars as well, casts vet another glance at that eternally popular topic: who is insane, society or the non-conformist? Society, typified by Bruce (Hart), wears a tuxedo, goes to college, talks in TV commercial slogans. Bruce's friends are Harry (Nathan Taylor), who likes to screw girls, and Erica (Barbara Lanckton), who goes to bed with Harry and later slits her wrists when the world becomes...