Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heavy grey sky. A few high school kids waited at the front of the crowd. They said that the Negroes got off from school yesterday to go hear Dick Gregory, and so it was alright for them to take today off to see Wallace. Their high school was 55 per cent Negro, they said, and the white kids were pretty much all for Wallace...
...thirds of the students voting in a college-wide straw poll conducted yesterday indicated that, given the chance, they would vote for Hubert Humphrey if they were old enough. Students who said that they would not vote edged out those indicating a preference for Richard Nixon, with about ten per cent of the vote in each category. Nearly 3000 students--about 50 per cent of Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates--responded to the poll. Eldridge Cleaver, the Peace and Freedom Party candidate, came in fourth with five per cent of the vote, followed by Eugene McCarthy, who received about four per cent...
Hard work, however, has to be the big reason for Spengler's improvement. McCurdy calls him a "two hundred per center who just keeps on making hard efforts where others would shy away...
...SFAC resolution forced a company to defend its policies in a public meeting if 500 undergraduates asked it to do so, but under the Chemistry Department proposal only ten per cent of the 300 graduate students in chemistry needed to ask for the confrontation...
...nuclear carrier needs nuclear-powered escort ships. Two teams of nuclear escorts are being constructed, but in three years the Chester Nimilz will join the Enterprise as the second nuclear-powered carrier in the Navy. Equipping the Kennedy with nuclear power would have raised its cost by 50 per cent. Also the Kennedy could not have yielded the operational benefits expected from nuclear ships because it would have been limited by its conventional escorts...