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Word: mets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goals were not met, however, and it looks as if the final goal of 10 million tons in 1970 will be impossible to achieve. Simply, there are basic problems with Cuban sugar production which remain to be solved. First, transportation of cut cane from the field to the mill poses great problems. Heavy trucks shipped from the Soviet Union to carry the sugar frequently break down. Cane quickly loses its sugar if not processed in short order...

Author: By Tom Reston, | Title: Cuba's Economy--1967 | 10/18/1967 | See Source »

...Bunting after which the Hunger Strike was ended, it was agreed that the Ad Hoc Committee would have two charges. The first was to outline suggestions for the future housing rules, and the second was to make recommendations concerning student participation, obviously the underlying issue. The Ad Hoc Committee met for the first time Wednesday, October 10, to begin this study which they had had to postpone because of the immediacy of the first issue. Mrs. Bunting's RPC is not "modeled" after this Committee, but rather is meant to usurp the powers of the one committee which the students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADCLIFFE POLICY COMMITTEE | 10/17/1967 | See Source »

...decision he criticized the Commission for failing to process the petition; they "exceeded their authority," he wrote, when they sought Trodden's opinion. The Commission's duty is limited by law to "the ministerial function of ascertaining whether the procedural requirements for submitting an initiative petition have been met," he stated. Judge Mitchell gave the Commissioners just 48 hours to do their job because they had already wrongly wasted so much crucial time. Eight people worked through Columbus Day in order to comply with the court order...

Author: By Bruce Springer, | Title: City Hall Fights Hard and Dirty to Keep Peace Resolution Off November 7 Ballot | 10/16/1967 | See Source »

Last year, the 1967 HPC did not take office until the beginning of the Spring term, and then met jointly with its predecessor for only three weeks...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: HPC Intends Earlier Pick Of Members | 10/16/1967 | See Source »

This, perhaps, is the only history that matters. But for the record, lead guitar John Hillman found harp-player Peter Ivers playing on a subway, and singer-bass player Gilbert Moses met Tschudin putting on plays in the NYU Drama Department. The previous friendship of Tschudin and Ivers brought the duos together, and the four auditioned for a drummer, luckily finding Jay Rubero. Ivers '68, a classics major who looks like a cross between Dennis the Menace and a Marvel superhero, proudly tells us that the new rock-and-roll group is based in Boston so he can finish college...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: The Streetchoir | 10/16/1967 | See Source »

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