Word: normale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Williamson said today's student activism is "much healthier than the apathy during my undergraduate years." He expects students "to observe normal bounds of respect for dissenting opinions...
...neither quite one nor the other. But 1,300 civilians are believed dead, 3,700 wounded. Before Tet, the Delta had 14,000 refugees; now there are 170,000, the product of 19,000 houses destroyed and 5,000 heavily damaged. Road traffic is a fifth or less of normal traffic...
...Some provinces are an exception," says Fitzhugh Turner, chief of U.S. psychological warfare in the Delta, "but, in general, we're pinned down." The other half of the Delta's transport system, its waterways, are running at nearly 75% of normal traffic loads, however. There is little shortage of food in the rice-rich Delta, and thus little inflation. The attacks closed the Delta's schools, pulled most of the 10,000 pacification workers into the towns. There is no doubt that the Viet Cong have added to their extensive Delta holdings, and will...
...visible evidence of student power is The University Forum, a group of 20 students and 20 teachers and administrators who meet monthly to discuss any issue they consider relevant. The Forum includes President Harnwell, four undergraduate college deans and other top officials, and provides a clear path through the normal bureaucratic thickets. Students will also help choose new deans for men, women and the College of Arts and Sciences...
...nation's securities markets last week resumed their normal trading hours, staying open until 3:30 p.m. after six weeks of closing at 2. As intended, the shortened sessions helped bring about a drop in the heavy trading volume that had swamped brokerage-house clerical staffs. Average daily volume on the New York Stock Exchange fell 24.5% to 9,639,118 shares, as against 12,764,872 shares during the first three weeks of 1968. On the American Stock Exchange, volume shrank by nearly 50%, from 8,039,660 shares a day to a mere...