Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President was occasionally hissed or laughed at by the overflow crowd--especially when he attempted to justify the University's investment policies--but the questioners repeatedly failed to follow up these delicate questions with documentation. The only document ever cited was Pusey's report...
LAST month's talks between Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia and Chester Bowles, Johnson's special envoy, produced enough noise to conceal their lack of substance. Bowles and Sihanouk agreed to ask the Southeast Asian International Control Commission to save Cambodia from drowning in the overflow of the Vietnam war. As a diplomatic exercise, the joint appeal may have been something of a success. But as a means of protecting Cambodia, the ICC would prove hopelessly inadequate...
KEENE, N.H. Feb. 15--Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D--Minn.) told an overflow crowd at Keene State Teachers College tonight that America must establish a new set of civil rights for every one of its citizens...
Thirty years have passed since Trumpeter Harry James peeked out between the curtains at the overflow audience in Carnegie Hall and whispered: "I feel like a whore in church." That was the night that Benny Goodman's big band first brought jazz to the concert hall, and in memory of the occasion Benny got the old group together last week for an evening of dinner-and-jam at his Manhattan apartment. Some of the boys -James, Pianist Teddy Wilson, Trombonist Red Ballard-were tied up elsewhere, but 14 of the original 26 made it, including Drummer Gene Krupa, Vibraphonist...
...handle the overflow from increasingly selective universities, the states have converted nearly every teachers college in the U.S. into a broader four-year liberal arts institution. The state-college system in California, with 18 campuses in operation and four more in the works, has 142,000 students, thus is twice as large as the nine-campus University of California. Some of these colleges, such as freewheeling San Francisco State and San Diego State, justifiably claim that they are better than many a public university elsewhere-and, in fact, are bitter about their lack of university status. Pennsylvania maintains a strong...