Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, Ponder kept bucking the system. In the semester finals he flunked six students including Minter. History Professor Robert Seager, the chairman of Annapolis' newly created chapter of the American Association of University Professors, upheld Ponder's position, insisting that grading is "an academic function and must be the prerogative of the individual teacher...
...sphere will be placed inside an evacuated quartz shell, also coated with niobium, and suspended in an electrostatic field. Suspending it in this manner will allow it to spin in a near-perfect vacuum without touching anything; it will be free from all friction. The gyroscope container will be kept in a bath of liquid helium at a temperature of-452°F. to make the niobium coating superconducting. In this supercooled state it will shield the gyroscope from the effects of any external magnetic field. Once in orbit, the free-spinning gyroscope will also be weightless and almost completely...
...show's seat. In one of the newer ploys, called "one stop through hop," two teen-age girls recently boarded a New York-to-Minneapolis Northwest Airlines flight with half-fare tickets good only through an intermediary stop, Milwaukee. Gambling that the stewardesses wouldn't check, they kept their seats in Milwaukee, went on to Minneapolis for free...
...angry parents keep airline phones tied up trying to locate them. Currently under CAB consideration is Delta's proposal to cut down the abuses and inconveniences by offering the kids reserved flights at two-thirds the normal fare. Privately, Delta and the other carriers wish that Sadler had kept his brain child to himself...
Despite Farley's statement, the dispute kept bubbling. Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital stopped buying Coke for its cafeteria. Nathan's Famous Hot Dog emporium on Coney Island and a New York theater chain threatened to do the same. The New York City Human Rights Commission even called for an investigation of Coca-Cola. At that point, Coca-Cola decided it had had enough pop shots. Farley announced that the company was awarding an Israeli franchise to Manhattan Banker Abraham Feinberg, who is also president of the Israel Development Corp., which promotes Bonds for Israel. The decision...