Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, day after day, in unremitting, round-the-clock attacks, scores of U.S. airmen carried out such missions, both north and south of the 17th parallel. Rumors of peace talks still wafted from capital to capital. In the U.S., professors at Harvard, Syracuse and Western Reserve universities held all-night "teach-ins," protesting U.S. policies in Viet Nam. Near week's end some 12,000 students staged a peace march in Washington. But in Viet Nam, the U.S. inexorably intensified its war effort, both in the air and on the ground...
Included in the new class are 125 Merit scholars, 25 more than in the Class of '63, Fred L. Glimp '50, dean of Admissions and Financial Aids, said yesterday. Except for this figure, the class will probably parallel the past few in most areas. The public school-private school ratio should stay near last year's 57-43 figure, he said...
...ORLEANS. To untangle traffic jams in the city's business district, the Louisiana highway department has proposed an elevated six-lane highway that would skirt the historic French Quarter and parallel the Mississippi River. Preservationists claim the highway will not only destroy the area's flourishing tourist trade, but also defeat their hopes of clearing a view of the Mississippi, long obscured by riverside warehouses. Warns Harnett T. Kane, president of the Louisiana Landmark Society: "It is the greatest single danger now confronting historic New Orleans...
Eight times in 13 days, U.S. and South Vietnamese bombers blasted in stallations north of the 17th parallel, moving ever closer to Hanoi. During a single week, U.S. and South Vietnamese pilots flew 17,570 sorties on both sides of the border. Their chief target was North Viet Nam's radar network: with everything from half-ton bombs to deadly white phosphorous, they hit Donghoi, Hatinh, Cap Mui Ron and, in strikes by 100 Navy planes from the aircraft carriers Coral Sea and Han cock, Bachlongvi Island, only 80 miles from Red China's heavily fortified Hainan Island...
Levin is not worried about the credit question. "We already have the students with talent and time. They don't need credit, they need guidance. "He suggested a parallel to the Nieman Fellows program. As Levin conceives of them, the fellows in theatre would "consult" informally with students and conduct noncredit seminars...