Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lambda Nu comes at a time when several Stanford dormitories are also converting to coed living. In allowing Lambda Nu to become the campus' first coed fraternity, Stanford stipulated that the women must be selected by random draw among those who sign up rather than by any selective "rush." After the first year, Lambda Nu has promised to select its men by draw as well...
Abandoning the rush would make Lambda Nu little different from a dormitory, but its members seem not to mind. Lambda Nu President Fred Fudacz, 20, sees coed living as an escape from the "separation of the sexes that perpetuates artificial male-female relationships." One likely result of daily contact is that students will be less inclined to idealize the opposite sex. After living with the men for a while, Lambda Nu's future coeds may start thinking of them as brothers...
...make a two-week gain of 65.02. It was the sharpest rally of the decade, and it hoisted the index of 30 blue-chip industrial shares to 905.69, highest since Jan. 9, wiping out nearly all the losses that followed the Viet Cong Tet offensive and the great gold rush...
...never seen six hours rush by so fast," quipped Bob Hope. He had a point. Last week's Academy Award ceremonies took 21 hours, but they seemed twice as turgid and ten times as tasteless...
...occurred. Trading was comparatively light, and the price of gold fell from $38 per oz. at the opening to $36.70, then edged up to $37 at week's end. On the Continent, where gold brought as much as $44 per oz. at the height of the March gold rush, the price dropped last week in phase with that in London; nowhere did it vary more than 50? per oz. from the British quotations...