Word: newe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early yesterday morning, two more American astronauts prepared to land on the moon, and the New York Times used an eight-column headline...
...most helpful viewpoint expressed by Blaine was that a large part of student unrest occurs because "the nature of the college population has changed and yet the colleges have not changed to meet the different kinds of needs which this new type of population comes with." The percentage of high school students who go on to college, Blaine pointed out, has jumped from 10 to 55 in the last 15 years. As a result, "fewer students are intellectually curious, scholarly, academic types . . . . More are . . . interested in directly coping with the problems of living...
...Harvard and the union have been trying to work out more definite procedures for the training and promotion of Harvard's maintenance workers. Yesterday, both sides said some progress had been made in the negotiations, and that the contract which will replace the one expiring in December may contain new provisions on these issue...
...weekend began with a sense of futility. You could ignore it if you took pleasure in the gas station attendant in New Haven who was wearing a peace button or the toll collector who flashed the "V" sign as you went...
Then a marshal lit my candle, and my new project was to keep it going until I said goodbye to Tinsley. I didn't succeed despite constant practice at those Christmas candlelight services. My candle burned faster than anyone else's, and it became clear that I would be lucky if the candle lasted the length of the walk...