Word: options
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Minding the Trail. The Allied and Laotian operations against the trail slow but cannot stop the Communist traffic into South Viet Nam. Inevitably, the U.S. has weighed more drastic measures, and in fact has drawn up a three-option contingency plan. In one version, U.S. troops would be helilifted in and out of Laos in rapid, frequent strikes against the trail. Another calls for the insertion of a sizable U.S. force, at least two divisions, into Laos to block the trail physically. The final and most far-out plan envisions a massive U.S. troops barrier drawn along the 17th parallel...
...revised boundaries are pending; similarly, parts of North Dakota and El Paso in the Central zone are observing Mountain Daylight. Michigan, which passed exempting legislation, has asked D.O.T. to revise its boundaries so that it falls entirely in the Eastern zone. The ultimate in confusion is Kentucky; there local option prevails, and the state must therefore cope simultaneously with four different times...
Harvard went to court last January to compel the University Road Real Estate Trust to honor a 1956 option agreement to sell the building, located at 122 Mt. Auburn St. Earlier this week, Middlesex Superior Court Judge Edward F. Hennessy told the lawyers for both parties that he would shortly issue a ruling in favour of Harvard...
Pass-fail has become the magic of educational reform. At one college after another, students are being given the option of taking a course each term in which, so long as they do passing work, they are not graded...
...certain how students who need top grades for graduate school would be affected by the pass-fail option. Many of them would work all the harder on their three graded courses; certainly, few of them would choose a fourth course that was completely new and time-consuming...