Word: metting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mixed Spanish and Indian blood, with liquid brown eyes, deeply bronze skin and thick, jet-black hair. He was born on an 80-acre farm in Arizona's Gila Valley near Yuma, where his parents tried to scratch a living from the arid desert earth. Chavez met racial hostility early in daily rock fights between Anglo and Chicano kids at the village school...
Crossing south of Great Bitter Lake, they met an Israeli patrol, and in a three-hour firefight near Suez, four Israelis and one Egyptian were wounded. In an other raid, south of El Qantara, the Egyptians unsuccessfully stormed an Israeli army post, losing three men (Egypt claimed 22 Israelis killed). In a third attack, Egyptian commandos tried to breach a road leading to the strategic Mitla Pass. The attacking Egyptian force was repulsed after killing one Israeli private...
...Cambridge, that such housing must clearly have the lowest priority in terms of public funds, energy or involvement. This is not because one group of residents is less important than the other. It is simply because they need less help, and have a better chance of having their needs met in the market. All builders or owners of private housing, at whatever rent levels, must also recognize that under no conditions is there any justification for taking advantage of the tight market to make excessive profits by capitalizing on the need of all our citizens for a home...
...optation is not in itself evil. But the SDS demands can be met, SDS is exerting pressure for concrete achievements. "Stop squeezing the life our of me" is unanswerable, and its effect ends when the excitement ends. This type of romanticism provides no plateaus where we can stop and rest. If it does not succeed entirely, it will have entirely failed; and the irate alumni will be right--we will have disrupted a great university to lengthen our spring vacation...
...Summer School comes up during wintertime dinner table conversation at a Harvard House, the course the talk will take is fairly predicable. One student will moan about the hours he wasted at Yard punches, while a second will cut him off by reminiscing about "that girl from --" that he met at the self-same punches. A third, after throwing in a few comments about sunbathing on the banks of the Charles, will end the conversation with a conclusion running along the lines of "All in all, it's not a bad excuse for playing away the summer...