Word: ribboning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chicago's municipal water-supply inlets and those of industries that draw water directly from the lake became clogged time and again with the little (two-to-seven-inch) alewives. Off Benton Harbor, Mich., an aerial photographer reported a ribbon of dead fish 50 ft. wide and 40 miles long floating on the surface of the lake...
...have been straightened out and all the pairs of lovers hooked up, Kahn keeps Antonio alone on the stage after all the others have exited, and the merchant slowly tears in two the letter in his hand. We are not to have our package tied up with a blue-ribbon...
...signed just a year after the President appointed a blue-ribbon commission, headed by former Assistant Attorney General Burke Marshall, to conduct a thorough review of the draft. The group recommended major changes, including the elimination of all student deferments, the institution of a lottery system, and the reversal of induction order to youngest first...
...know how to beat the odds. No one is more con fident of ultimate success than Warren J. Winstead, president of the brand-new Nova University near Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Brashly aimed at becoming a Southern counterpart to Caltech and M.I.T., Nova U. is being guided by a blue-ribbon panel of top educators, will open its first classes this fall with just 21 graduate students, all on full fellowships-and also with 25 Ph.D. professors, $9,500,000 in assets, and $1,228,000 in promised research grants...
...must aim at financing of state and local races. But there are tricky constitutional questions involved. The conduct of such campaigns comes clearly under the jurisdiction of state legislatures, and any attempt to offer federal aid from tax revenues might be ruled unconstitutional. President Johnson has appointed a blue-ribbon committee, headed by Richard E. Neustadt, to study the entire question of election reforms. Neustadt's report, which has been mysteriously withheld by the President, may clarify this issue and offer some alternatives to the muddled Long...