Word: lateraling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shoppers crowd before mirrors trying on clothes. One woman removes her raincoat, turns seconds later to find another woman trying it on. Since there are no dressing rooms, shoppers pull on three, four dresses, one over the other. Others unashamedly strip to bra and panties. "A few years ago," says Manager Gormley, "so many men were spending lunch hours staring down at the women from the stairwell that we had to build partitions...
...Mass arrests at Berkeley (1964) prefigure later campus revolts at Columbia and San Francisco State (1968), Harvard and Cornell...
...October, Texas students blocked the doors to the university's main building with cypress trees that the school had cut down in order to expand the Texas football stadium. The protesters were particularly angered by the administration's decision to rush the cutting; a few hours later an Austin court handed down a restraining order that would have spared the trees. In November, more activists occupied a campus snack bar from which university officials had barred nonstudents. Both conflicts were partly defused by negotiation, a tactic that the regents now regard as appeasement. The outlook: more trouble...
...correspondent for the New York Times, and later for NBC, Elie Abel has often found himself at the flash points of the world. He covered the Nurnberg trials, the Hungarian Revolution, two presidential campaigns and the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. But last week Abel, 49, received what may well be his toughest assignment: he was appointed dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, the best in the field, but a school divided...
...pension. Robert L. Coon, 56, a staff photographer for 25 years, was given the option of $10,000 in severance pay or a $100-a-month pension. He picked the pension. One executive was offered a promotion and a raise at Goodrich, then fired three weeks later. He chose a cash settlement of $23,000 instead of a $135-a-month pension. Most of the dismissed employees have found other jobs...