Word: past
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classroom and you see the same teacher and the same blackboard you saw 20 years ago." Does this also apply to the same Professor Kittredge at the same old lectern at Harvard or to the same Professor Baker at the same old drama workshop at Yale in years past? When should a teacher be thrown on the scrap heap? Speaking as a teacher who is standing at the same old blackboard for the ninth year, and who has spent the last nine summers attending graduate school, when must I begin to apologize for wanting to continue to practice my profession...
Slapped Down. It was Humphrey who, seeking to convince skeptics of his dedication to peace, forced the controversy to the surface. He has experimented with optimistic predictions over the past few weeks. In private Administration meetings, he argued for a bombing halt, somewhat to Lyndon Johnson's irritation. Twice Humphrey publicly suggested a softening of U.S. war policies-through a bombing pause and troop withdrawals-but each time the President publicly slapped him down...
...responsible for carting drunks to jail-one-third of all arrests. A good case could be made for putting traffic control in the hands of some other body-and for repealing scores of antique laws that make it criminal to behave in ways that offended society in the past but are now irrelevant. "The white middle class uses criminal codes as garbage cans," says University of Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar. "Whenever it has a problem it doesn't want to treat adequately, it draws up a criminal statute...
...long, operating in a deep arc that curves east from a point near Orlu. Under the iron command of Colonel Benjamin Adekunle, it is far more aggressive, daring and successful than the other two federal divisions combined, having captured the other primary strongholds of Aba and Owerri in the past month. Both towns, as well as Umuahia, are in territory originally assigned to the other divisions...
Many states tend to keep their criminals hidden away, but Colorado's are highly visible. During the past two years, teams of convicts from the state penitentiary at Canon City have been al lowed to leave prison - each team with only one unarmed guard - to go on speaking tours throughout the state. As a result, Coloradans outside the walls are gaining an understanding of the convicts, and have begun to take an interest in their problems...