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Wilcox said the essence of the new rules is to loosen slightly lower-level requirements (by allowing students to satisfy them with selected middle group courses) and to tighten slightly the upper-level requirements (by preventing students from counting courses related to concentration toward their distribution requirement...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: New Gen Ed Program Runs Smoothly | 9/29/1966 | See Source »

...price of some of his cherished Great Society programs. That is a hard decision for Johnson to make, but this time he will have to face up to it without delay. Harry Truman struck a chord of urgency in the nation when he asked for quick action to loosen money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: A Call for Action | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

...jumped up and down in his seat, "They're a-coming, they're a-coming," he wheezed. The genitals shot was in ten seconds. He was up on his feet, treacherously supporting the spindly legs bowed by years of riding. Tears came to his eyes. His Polident began to loosen. His friends frantically pulled the zippers on their storm cuffs back and forth until...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Sin, Flicks, and Tech | 4/25/1966 | See Source »

...humanities, retaining a language and physical education. The Yale faculty voted last month to abandon its system of requiring a certain distribution of courses in various fields; next year's college bulletin will say that "every reasonable program" proposed by students "will be approved." Smith will also loosen its distribution rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: In Pursuit of Independence | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

Cassius would lean back in his folding chair, loosen his terry cloth robe, and case a vanilla smile across his chocolate face. "Little Phil, when I'm growed up, you'll know what I done...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: The Rabbit Will Fall in Two In Tonight's Ring Rendezvous | 11/22/1965 | See Source »

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