Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer session--which was approved last Friday--will make it possible for students to complete their second-year courses during the fall term and receive their MBA degrees by mid-January...
Demonstrations in support of the demands will begin May 20 and continue until mid-June. By then, SCLC planners expect Congress to have taken action--or to have indicated that none will be taken. A massive march--which organizers hope will be larger than the 1963 civil rights march that brought 200,000 people to the capital--will be held...
Focal point of the campaign will be Abernathy's "City of New Hope," a super-shanty town that by mid-May will house some 3,000 of the anticipated 50,000 demonstrators. Last week hammers rang and saws brayed as volunteers built the first of 200 triangular-shaped shelters, costing $10 per inhabitant, which will be moved to the camp-in site-as soon as one can be agreed upon. Congressional pressure against allowing the marchers to use federal land is mounting. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall has been cool to the use of the Capitol Mall, where crowds gathered...
...reason that students are getting more attention is that there are so many of them-and larger student bodies make larger demonstrations. Since the mid-1950s, university enrollments have doubled and more: from 380,000 to 880,000 in Latin America, from 739,000 to 1,700,000 in Western Europe, from 2,600,000 to 7,000,000 in the U.S. Among these, the vast majority are not militant and are often repelled by and sometimes moved to protest against the extravagances of the extremists. The majority are not apathetic but are more concerned with courses than causes...
...February, Thomson has expressed the need for a rethinking of our China policy. He favors "taking all necessary steps toward recognition of China." The failure of policy-makers within the government to come to grips with this problem, Thomson explains, is one of the reasons he left Washington in mid...