Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer the blockade lasts, the more restless and apprehensive the Israelis are bound to become. They never forget that in 1956 it took Israeli troops only five days to reach Sharm el Sheikh and silence the guns that had closed the Gulf of Aqaba to their ships...
...Federation and the Administration did seem to reach an uneasy agreement on the other major issue--that the present yardsticks for measuring the fifth-time teaching load contain inequities that should be eliminated. But they split sharply on the status and function of teaching fellows: the University has taken the very disturbing position that teaching fellows are not really Harvard employees but graduate students who teach as only a sideline. Throughout the Federation's campaign, the University has treated the group as though it represented only graduate students, not what one Federation leader called "the junior faculty of the junior...
Where, with all its money, is Wesleyan heading? Etherington hopes that all of the planning committees and consultants will come up with a variety of options. Wesleyan might go coed, develop new graduate studies, add law or medical schools, or reach out to expand its community services. Whatever the eventual choices, Wesleyan can afford to take its time. Says Etherington, with comfortable and enviable assurance: "The worst way to spend money is to buy the first thing off the shelf...
...better than accept the Vietnamese Ministry of Health's report that casualties are now being admitted to its hospitals at the rate of 50,000 a year. Among them: 10,000 children. The doctors noted that according to some estimates, only one-third of civilian casualties ever reach a hospital. That would mean 30,000 child casualties a year at current rates, and perhaps 150,000 since the war began...
...such as Kaplan and Pistoletto can find galleries in Manhattan nowadays is largely because Oldenburg's monster hamburgers and soft vinyl Dormeyer mixers made comic contemporary art acceptable, indeed sometimes all but inescapable. "Jokes," says Oldenburg, with all the Nordic intensity of a Bergman, "are one way to reach people. Perhaps humor is the only useful tool in a dissolving world...