Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Preserve and Protect, Drury...
...system around Moscow. The Soviet catch-up drive, together with China's nuclear development program and the approaching 1968 election, finally pushed the Johnson Administration into the ABM competition. Under Johnson, the U.S. planned a so-called "thin" ABM system, at an estimated cost of $5 billion, to protect against a relatively primitive Chinese missile attack in the 1970s. However, many believe that the project, once begun, would inevitably grow into a "thick" defense against a Russian strike at a cost of $50 billion or more. Last week the Nixon Administration temporarily halted work on the Sentinel pending...
...have, of course, gone through all this before. After the demonstration against the Dow Chemical Company in October, 1967, the Faculty intervened to protect scholarship recipients and seated a demonstrator who had been elected to the SFAC. It is likely that the Faculty will make the same decisions again...
...costumes add up to one thing: a pitiful attempt to be noticed in this competitive community of ours. To be witnessed, but not to be vulnerable. To be seen and not touched. It is an expression of vanity so transparent that it is embarrassing to watch. A thousand barriers protect these egos from one another...
...University as a whole should be held responsible. The University does have an obligation, as the Rosovsky committee said, "to create an environment in which racial justice prevails at all levels," but it is not clear that this effort must be at the expense of its responsibility to protect a plurality of intellectual approaches within its community...