Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Constitution leaves little doubt of the Council's intended activities. It's two most promnient "purposes" are "To provide liaison between the administration and the graduate students and to maintain a spirit of friendly cooperation among the graduate schools...
...They maintain that the draft finds its most effective use in community organizing. "It can be used as a tool to reach those people who hear about the war only by reading their newspapers," says Vernon Grizzard, who organizes against the draft in Cambridge...
...from Rocketeer Dr. Wernher von Braun, 55, darkened the tenth-anniversary celebration of the first U.S. satellite, the 31-lb. Explorer 1. Budget cuts, warned Von Braun at a National Press Club luncheon, were "dismantling the high competence" of the U.S. space effort and supplying funds "too low to maintain progress and momentum." All the same, noted Dr. William H. Pickering, 57, head of Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it has been a zingy decade-notably in the space race with Russia. Pickering's box score: 500 satellites, 13 successful moon missions, 2,000 hours of manned flight...
...first hint of brutality and murder at the farms. Shortly after Governor Winthrop Rockefeller took office in 1967, he released a 67-page state-police prison report, ordered and then suppressed by former Governor Orval Faubus, that painted a picture of hell in Arkansas. To maintain discipline, prisoners were beaten with leather straps, blackjacks, hoses. Needles were shoved under their fingernails, and cigarettes were applied to their bodies. For the truly unregenerate, there was the "Tucker telephone," a form of electric-shock torture used by James Bruton, former superintendent of the Tucker prison farm. A prisoner was strapped...
...Bunting argues that resident students would otherwise be taxed to maintain facilities such as the library, the Radcliffe offices (the Dean's office, the financial aid office, the admissions office, etc.) which benefit all students. To prove her point, she gave a rough breakdown of college expenses at a Radcliffe Government Association meeting last semester. Critics remained unconvinced and one termed the explanation "a whitewash...