Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mayor Barbara Ackermann said last night that she is opposed to any regulation governing hitchhikers except those concerning cars stopping in the middle of traffic to pick up passengers...
...make laws to protect two people in a car who don't know each other," she told a group of 12 students in the Tonkens Room at Winthrop House. She explained that it is illegal under state law to pick up persons hitchhiking in the street, but that there were no laws against standing on the curb while hitching...
...pick up girl hitchhikers, but I don't pick up male hitchhikers as much as I used to since the recent murders," she said...
...Miles students have no idea of professional life styles, Monro says. "This program opens up expectations; when they come back, college takes on a ring of reality." The program also required a massive restructuring of the curriculum schedule, so that students returning from a semester in the community could pick up the normal sequence of courses. Yet Monro scoffs at the organizational task: "When you've got a program that's as dead right as this one, you don't worry about it. The only way to do it is to start...
...Brown University as a soccer prospect, including an expense free trip to the Brown campus (probably paid for by Brown alumni). But Vujovic didn't want to go to Brown -- "I wanted to go to Harvard because that was the American school to go to," -- and his decision to pick Harvard over Brown caused a mild furor in Providence, where the admissions people felt that Harvard had "stolen" their prospect...