Word: paper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beaufort Scale, a moderate breeze (Force 4) is one that merely raises "dust and loose paper." A Force 10 gale causes "considerable damage to buildings." Somewhere between the two must be a wind of sufficient force to waft a heavyweight politician into active presidential candidacy. But how to recognize the draft? "It is very difficult, believe me," Nelson Rockefeller admitted last week...
...Little Loyalty. Joseph William Martin Jr. was born in North Attleboro, Mass., in an era of horse trolleys and self-made men. Son of a Scots blacksmith and an Irish lass, he peddled papers, passed up Dartmouth in favor of reporting local news, and later bought the paper. Politics came naturally in that era, and Joe Martin was a natural. Stubby and combative, as quick with an infectious grin as with a roundhouse right, little Joe's big break came in 1925, when he entered the U.S. House of Representatives after the man who had beaten...
...silence. Costuming can consist of tossing on anything that suits the moment or, as in Parades and Changes, performed by Ann Halprin's Dancers' Workshop of San Francisco, taking it all off and cavorting around in the buff (although they wrap themselves in reams of flesh-colored paper...
...given a total of nearly $9,000,000 to major dance groups, while the National Endowment for the Arts has divvied up another $1,000,000. Says National Arts Council President Roger Stevens: "Dance needs money more than any of the other arts. A writer needs pencil and paper, a painter needs canvas and paints. But a choreographer needs bodies, and they have to be paid." They are not paid very well; while a top Balanchine star such as Villella or Melissa Hayden can make $20,000 a year, the girls in the New York City's corps...
...theme of the News' anti-ROTC campaign was that a university's commitment to truth must transcend any national allegiance, and accordingly that courses sponsored by government authorities should be separated from the university curriculum. The paper urged the B.U.'s ROTC units be given, in effect, the same status as the campus' other extra-curricular activities...