Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...referring to rumors that had armed Negroes invading the white suburbs and armed white snipers riding through the Negro ghettos. Because of such rumors, both Negroes and whites are starting to arm themselves. The mayor and others thought that the News and the Free Press could have helped quiet such wild talk. As it is, the city no longer even has its three interim papers...
...countless U.S. colleges, angry students have threatened to disrupt their campuses in confrontations with administrators on the issue of student power. But not at the University of Pennsylvania, where the question is purely academic. In what President Gaylord P. Harnwell approvingly calls "a quiet revolution," carried out with neither malice nor militancy, students have been ushered into the corridors of power, and at Penn they now wield more control over their destinies than do their peers at other schools of its size...
...America's land war in Asia enters its fourth year, what was once merely strange now becomes somehow menacing. To many anti-war students, the quiet presence of ROTC on the Harvard campus appears as a recent and insidious intrusion of the warmakers, an ill-conceived alliance between the University and the war in Vietnam. Thus even when the students in Mallinckrodt began to compose a list of demands one night last October, someone suggested that they include the abolition of ROTC at Harvard. But although the suggestion seemed in keeping with the theme...
...next month will be a quiet one for Long, while he concentrates on his thesis. But afterwards, he hopes to organize as many of the 500 Vietnamese students in this country as he can. He says he is optimistic because he was earlier able to get more than a dozen signatures in a few days. "But the possibility of punishment makes it difficult," he admitted. Long's own passport is up for renewal in May. He wants to go to graduate school here.NGO VINH LONG '68, Vietnamese student at Harvard, earlier this month confronted his country's ambassador...
Evidently Brundage hopes the furor over South Africa will grow quiet in the two months he expects to pass before the IOC's executive board discusses the issue. Then, if the controversy still exists, there would be another period of months before the 72 nations could assemble. Brundage may well feel that by then, just before entries close in August, the excitement generated by Olympic trials throughout the world will chill the dispute. At any rate, he intends to procrastinate...