Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trimester plan [March 11] may lead colleges to financial brinksmanship; this is for trustees to decide. What is more definite is that the system verges on academic bankruptcy. Students have no time to acquire perspective; they obtain a veneer of knowledge. The faculty suffers equally. An instructor may teach twelve courses in a calendar year on up to nine topics; he could not possibly do the reading required for top performance. One week between terms is grossly insufficient for "catching up." As for research, publication or public service, when would there be time...
...District Court, where Judge Harold Tyler Jr. dismissed his argument that igniting a draft card is a form of free speech, but announced dryly that he would not "create a myth of martyr-hood." After handing down a three-year sentence, the judge suspended it on condition that Miller obtain a new draft card, carry it as required by law, and submit to induction if drafted...
Cyprus has been in a state of crisis since December 1963, when fighting broke out between the ethnic Greek and Turkish population over Greek Cypriot efforts to obtain greater political control through constitutional revision. U.N. forces have been in Cyprus since March...
...Young Democrats resolution, which originated in its Poverty, Welfare and Housing Subcommittee, stressed the importance of contraception in alleviating poverty. It said that the poor cannot now obtain contraceptives "extra-legally" as easily as others...
Damon hopes to obtain further grants to cover the costs of the full program...