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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...booth packing. A breezy little article in the North Dakota State University newspaper encouraged students to "zip" to the mining town of Zap, N.D. (pop. 300) for a Mother's Day "Zap-Out." Sure enough, late last week columns of collegians began rolling down Zap's unpaved main thoroughfare, their cars emblazoned with signs readiag ZAP OR BUST. Mayor Norman Fuchs, sporting a ZAP N.D. OR BUST! sweat shirt, and some of the townsfolk turned out to offer a friendly greeting. All seemed to believe the college newspaper's plan of turning Zap-with its two bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Dakota: Zapping Zap | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

Mayor Fuchs, who only hours before had boosterish dreams of a boomlet for Zap, now walked along Main Street in a daze, saying: "Animals! Animals!" He tried to bring the fire under control, but when the volunteer fire department arrived a score of youths jumped on the truck and began taking it apart. Finally, the thoroughly frustrated Fuchs called for help. Governor William Guy responded with 500 National Guardsmen, who came dressed for combat and armed with rifles and 5-ft. clubs. Within an hour the students were gone, leaving behind a shattered community. Not one of the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Dakota: Zapping Zap | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...PERIOD in the arts has so mesmerized succeeding generations of artists, or so bewildered the public, as the years from 1882 to 1935 -- years of almost constant musical detonations. The main crisis was that the girdling shadow of the colossus Wagner had to be escaped. The entire community of Europe agonied in the punishing ascendency of the magnificent nineteenth century figures: Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms, Metternich, Bismarck, Darwin. Music was caught in a vortex of gigantic, lavish attempts at the final romantic masterpiece. Mahler's Eighth Symphony, Richard Strauss's Symphonia Domestica and Alpine Symphony, Schoenberg's Pelleas and Melisande...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Musical Avant-Garde | 5/15/1969 | See Source »

...opinion the main answer to (1) comes from the concern of the Government with all aspects of increasing knowledge and skills in the nation and from the fact that research and training cannot be separated. The best training is obtained in a laboratory working on the most advanced and exciting problems of fundamental physics, and the best research is done in participation with questioning and imaginative students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELECTRON ACCELERATOR | 5/13/1969 | See Source »

...MAIN defender of the permanent government's interests is Robert H. Finch, who apparently has had some influence on President Nixon. Finch's Department of Health, education, and Welfare is the top purchaser of university research, and Finch has consistently opposed legislation that would aggravate the government's relations with the university...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Money From Congress | 5/13/1969 | See Source »

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