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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Those brats just seemed to delight in terrorizing us," said one U.S. housewife. Only the arrival of a rebel army colonel stopped the gunplay and permitted the removal of the refugees to the port of Haina, twelve miles away. There the U.S. Navy was already waiting to load 1,172 of them aboard transports. Some 1,000 other Americans elected to stay behind, hoping the disorder would soon be ended...
...seems perpetually bent out of shape. Teachers, civil servants and even the 30,000-man army frequently go without pay. Air conditioners in most of the capital's sticky offices are turned on only when important visitors arrive. Roadways are falling apart, but when Sihanouk recently ordered a load limit of eight tons on the vital Pnompenh-Battambang Highway, he had to rescind the decree. Shell Oil, which supplies Battambang with all its oil and gasoline, pointed out that its tank trucks weigh six tons empty, and without them the town would soon be unable to operate its electric...
...theses. In a recent report, the department's undergraduate committee noted that "many concentrators choose to do honors because it is simply 'easier' to take a full course during the year in which the only requirement is a long paper than it would be to take the normal course load and in addition have to prepare for and take a six-hour exam...
...Anytime you can get away from grade evaluations reasonably, it's a good idea," Monro remarked yesterday. He cautioned, however, that "graduate schools demand a recognizable transcript." Monro speculated that the maximum reasonable number of ungraded or informally graded courses would be about half of an individual's course load...
Rosenthal noted that Vorenberg normally devotes two days each week to his office duties--not one day, as the article alleged-- and maintains a full teaching load at the Law School. He doubted that "any program has been impeded by Vorenberg's unavailability--the office has a full-time associate director and four capable attorneys...