Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Literature. When the lecturer took the podium, the audience stood up and cheered. The center of all this attention was Angela Davis, 25, a militant black and an acting assistant professor of philosophy at U.C.L.A. She is the heroine in what is fast becoming California's most dramatic row over academic freedom since the loyalty-oath fight in the early 1950s...
...Issues. Some such row has seemed inevitable since last April, when the university's regents gave themselves veto power over faculty tenure appointments. Later they tried to soothe irked professors by vowing that "no political tests shall ever be considered" in faculty hiring and promotion. But last month, despite that vow, the regents voted to fire Professor Davis-a Brandeis Phi Beta Kappa, a protegee of New Left Philosopher Herbert Marcuse and a onetime Black Panther-because she is, by her own admission, a member of the Communist Party. For the moment, she is being allowed to give...
...distribute heat evenly. A cluster of 13 light detectors-much like the electric eye on a camera-keeps the box pointed at the sun. A small telescope mirror collects solar rays coming through the open end of the box and then reflects them onto a diffraction grating, a row of closely-scaped lines that breaks the light up into a spectrum. This spectrum constantly changes as different chemical reactions occur...
Scoring a "perfect" 15-50 win over Brown yesterday afternoon at Franklin Park, the Harvard cross country team set the squad record for the most consecutive dual meet victories with their twenty-ninth triumph in a row...
Quincy's house intramural touch football team extended its unbeaten streak to 11 in a row yesterday, upending Lowell 43-2 in a hotly contested match...