Word: planning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mind. Some two weeks before the Princeton game, President Roosevelt, in a Fireside Chat, announced that he would shortly ask Congress to lower the draft age to 18. Several days before that, James Conant called for the "conversion" of Harvard to war-time status. According to his plan, soon to be adopted in modified form, Harvard and the other Ivy schools would cease providing "college" educations altogether, and devote themselves exclusively to training local high school graduates for Army and Navy duty...
...charismatic as ever, Arias claims that times have changed and he has changed with them. As a start, Arias has organized a strong, five-party coalition, recruited some able talent for his government, and drafted the rudiments of a program calling for tighter tax collections, a much-needed plan for urban renewal and continued negotiations for a new Panama Canal treaty...
...with all deliberate speed," and four years since it ruled that "the time for mere 'deliberate speed' has run out." Last week, on behalf of an impatient and unanimous court, Justice William Brennan wrote: "The burden on a school board today is to come forward with a plan that promises realistically to work, and promises realistically to work...
Bluntly, Brennan spelled out the court's dissatisfaction with the so-called "freedom of choice" plans that have been adopted in more than 1,300 of Southern school districts. The trouble with the plans is that they simply do not work. In New Kent County, Va., and Gould, Ark.-the two areas specifically examined by the court-schools remain largely segregated because the responsibility for action has been placed on the Negro students: they must take it upon themselves to request a transfer. And all too few of them make the effort. But they should not have to, said...
...designate one of their four required courses pass-fail. Individual instructors will decide whether students will be allowed to take their particular courses pass-fail. Many Harvard departments, however, have decided not to allow courses taken pass-fail to count toward concentration requirements. The major rationale for the plan had been that its existence would encourage students to take courses outside their majors and personal spheres of competence...