Word: recent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Friendly Committee was one of two special committees set up by the Board of Overseers at their first meeting following the April 9 incident. The purpose of the committee was to study "those factors in the University and in Society which made possible the recent events "at Harvard, and to recommend appropriate action...
...committee derived its name from its renowned chairman, Judge Henry Friendly. In addition to the chairman, there were four other members, all Overseers, and a secretary who was a young Boston lawyer and recent Harvard graduate...
Since the patches have survived on the lunar surface despite the moon's constant bombardment by micrometeorites and solar particles, Gold calculates that the event was relatively recent-perhaps less than 30,000 years ago. It probably lasted only ten to 100 seconds. The small craters show the effect of the blast because they are natural heat traps. What was the origin of this fiery outburst, which Gold figures was 100 times more powerful than ordinary sunlight? Writing in the current issue of Science, Gold speculates that it came from the sun itself, possibly as the result...
...Angeles and St. Louis report a declining demand for shoes, partly because the new styles, which many people consider ugly, have not really caught on. The fur industry is having its shabbiest year in decades; women are not buying as many minks and Persian lambs as in recent years. In Boston, Detroit and other cities, retailers express misgivings about the prospects for Christmas sales; some are trimming their holiday orders...
There is no doubt that the SST, like the jets before it, will lure more passengers into the air. A recent survey conducted for TWA revealed that two-thirds of all passengers responding would prefer to fly supersonically, and 56% would pay a premium of $50 to do so on a 2,000-mile flight. Still, each SST will cost more than most airlines earn in a single year. Even now, the airlines are stretching the tight money market to pay for the new generation of subsonic jumbo jets and airbuses, and smaller lines only wish that the SST would...