Word: notches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dunlop Committee are in themselves enough to keep the Faculty talking most of next fall, the specific suggestions for change are far less remarkable than the tone of the report in which they are offered. For while proposing ways for the University to hire and keep top-notch Faculty, the Committee has also delivered a massive dose of plain talk on Harvard's place in American education and her prospects for the future...
...golf team moved up another notch in its bid for Ivy League honors Saturday by thrashing undefeated Cornell, 5-2, on the Big Red's Ithaca course...
...lived up to here any more than they are anyplace else. What of the Kenneth Clarke's, John Hope Franklin's, Ralph Bunche's and James Farmer's? And before them, the E. Franklin Frazier's, Sterling Brown's and Horace Mann Bond's? All are and were top-notch academics besides being spokesmen for the Negro struggle in America. And each of them in turn know and could name scores of qualified academics who could teach even at Olympian Harvard. Of course much of Harvard's standard of competence is related to the prolific and compulsive turning...
Nagging as all the others may be, the overriding enigma for Clifford-and the President-is, of course, Viet Nam. All the signs indicate that Johnson is once more going through the process of preparing the nation for news of a major notch-up in the war. When the announcement will come is uncertain, but it seems likely that Johnson has in mind an increase in troop strength on the order of nearly 200,000 men. That would have far-reaching effects. It would add as much as $10 billion to the $77 billion Defense budget. House Ways and Means...
From Nashua to Dixville Notch, he sermonized in boys' school and fish factory, Y.M.C.A. and insurance office, shopping center and ski resort. Mostly he campaigned in living rooms, where he tapped a veritable mother lode...