Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favoring Christians, as are the army and the civil service. From time to time, the system has come close to collapse. Until last week, its severest test occurred in 1958, when strife between the sects led President Eisenhower to dispatch the U.S. Sixth Fleet and 14,500 Marines to prevent an Arab takeover...
...Brooks also received yesterday a letter from SDS which accused his Subcommittee of "holding closed hearings precisely to prevent people from seeing the vicious purposes to which the Project will be put." The letter called the subcommittee "an academic rubber stamp for the Corporation" and ended with a "demand that [its] meetings be open and announced beforehand...
Lowry Hemphill '72, a member of the SDS anti-expansion committee, last night said that about 200 Harvard students would be present at North Harvard Street this morning if Deputy Sheriffs attempted an eviction. Students from other schools in the area will also be mobilized in an attempt to prevent the Sheriffs from evicing the families...
...they're not so stupid. Almost everybody manages to prevent the insistent Colliermen from getting in his door, despite a sales talk designed to make it as difficult as possible for a family to turn down the company's "offer." A person who started listening, liked what he saw, and remained silent when told the cost of the books was only "small change" gradually became committed to buying...
...right to breathe clean air" has been invoked in the Los Angeles District Court by 40 Congressmen, mainly Democrats, seeking to prevent the Nixon Administration from settling out of court an anti-trust suit charging that major auto-makers have "stalled" the installation of anti-smog devices. Hearings on the case will open tomorrow...