Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...covers; Hanoi's almost tranquil orderliness contrasted with the confusion of corrupt Saigon; and with presumably straight faces we watch the military traffic flow south to fight the American aggressors, having only admiration for the resiliency and cleverness of the North Vietnamese as they thwart our attempts to prevent their takeover of the South. A natural sympathy for a beleaguered people becomes perverse when so distorted, and especially so when the actually beleaguered happen to live south of the DMZ. Mr. Collingwood was fed dog out of the admiration of his hosts-perhaps because he is willing...
...Tuesday is Branigin's tightly controlled state party machine, which is allied with many of Indiana's labor leaders. If it runs at top speed, the popular Governor may outdistance both his rivals. But even if it performs only moderately well, it can garner enough votes to prevent either Kennedy or McCarthy from claiming anything significant in the results...
...reason for the "brighter" students' lack of interest can be found in the college itself. Although the college environment leads more people into business, it seems to prevent its top students from going in that direction. The college has different effects on different people. Dr. Stanley King, director of the Harvard Student Study, a research project on the effects of the undergraduate experience on personality, finds that many students arrive at Harvard with a set of personality characteristics well-suited to business, but are looking forward to a career in one of the more "glamorous" professions: law, medicine, academia. Finding...
Meanwhile, conservative students, members of the Majority Coalition, moved to "starve out" demonstrators in Low Library by encircling the building to prevent food from being brought inside. An agreement made with the faculty Friday stipulated that food was permitted...
...maximum interest that commercial banks are permitted to pay on large time deposits-money left with a bank for a specified period. The new ceiling applies to "certificates of deposit" of $100,000 or more with maturities of six months or longer. By this action, the Fed hopes to prevent sharp deposit losses, which would further disrupt the already nervous financial markets...