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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goalie Bill Meyers broke the 21-year-old shutout record of four games held by Loring Bacheler. Mevers was assisted by the offensive line which kept almost continuous pressure on the rookie Cornell goalie...
They hoped to galvanize public opinion by goading Chicago's tough cops into more of the publicity-catching repression meted out last year. Despite the provocations, the police for the most part kept their temper. Nor did many allies enlist in the cause...
Most Asian societies take a love-and-let-love attitude toward sex, as long as it is kept private. The trouble is that younger Asians, anxious to keep up with the latest fads flowing from Manhattan and London, have gone public. India's debate, for example, was set off when a government censorship commission recommended that "if in telling a story it is relevant to depict a passionate kiss or a nude figure," moviemakers should do so. After all, the commission noted, Indian directors never hesitate to feature bump-and-grind girly dances so provocative that they "may almost...
...Viet Nam too, sounding early warnings against military intervention in Southeast Asia. Counseling and criticizing, he variously complained that "money serves as a substitute for intelligence" in American foreign policy and that complex issues are too often reduced to simple-minded win-or-lose terms. As a gadfly, he kept pointing out, too, that it is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what...
...Harvard telescopes similar to this one. But the first telescope aboard OSO-II failed only seconds after being switched on, and a surge of electric power from a faulty transformer ruined the telescope on OSO-IV after six weeks of operation. However, the data from those six weeks has kept astronomers here more than busy for two years...