Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will have only one less vote than originally planned. equal representation balances the undergraduate voice on the committee with students from graduate schools where restructuring is not really a major issue...
College-by-credit-card is backed by Columbus' City National Bank, which in 1966 became the first bank in the state to offer a major credit card. So far, 150 students have signed on the line, and the bankers expect that more than 4,000 will be using cards to pay for tuition or room and board at Ohio State before the year is out. The idea is likely to spread. It has already taken hold in California, where students at Stanford, San Jose State and throughout the University of California extension system have charged their education...
...data-gathering and model-building techniques in the service of America's global efforts to prevent social revolutions ("internal war"). The project was to concentrate on the Latin American countries, where left-wing insurgencies were getting to be a pretty scrious problem in the early 1960's, and a major field office was to be established in the region to co-ordinate data-gathering operations. The initial Camelot project was to be a three-to-four year undertaking with a total cost of about five million dollars, and in the early stages there was optimistic banter in some Washington circles...
...proposed research program is a university based effort and therefore oriented to advance a major field of science. While it is a basic research effort, it is likely to lead to many applications. The potential applications of the advances made- if the project succeeds- may perhaps be better understood by those in public life who will apply the knowledge than by the scientists themselves. Yet it is clear to us that public policy will be aided by advances in the understanding of human interactions and in the prediction of the performance of social systems...
...played a major role in developing Model Cities and other community programs in Cambridge is resigning his post at City Hall effective January...