Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exploding population (increasing 3.4% a year) and depressed economy, Ecuador indeed needs action. "A rich man here," says Ecuador's retiring interim President, Otto Arosemena, "is poorer than a porter on Wall Street." The 2% of the population that the government considers to be rich has an annual per capita income of only $1,167. Most of the country's 5,400,000 people-40% Indian, 50% mestizo and 10% white-live in abject poverty, either scratching out a living in the scabrous, rock-strewn Andes or drifting into the reeking slums that blight the cities like open...
...upperclassmen in all rank list groups. Actually the CEP was doing little more than validating what it found to be the evolutionary development of Independent Study. It had originally been intended as course reduction to accommodate eccentric schemes of the college's best students, but now about 300 students per term use the program to take oneman courses and there is little logic to restricting this opportunity to the best students...
...started quite ordinarily at September registration with a Young Democrats presidential preference poll showing that 77 per cent of Harvard and Radcliffe thought that Lyndon B. Johnson would be re-elected...
...frustrating thing was that only 13 per cent wanted him re-elected, and most of those were freshmen. Little-noted at the time were the six votes--less than one per cent--which Senator Eugene J. McCarthy received...
...other crews had fallen far behind as Harvard and Penn took the cadence up to 38 beats per minute, then higher...