Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...science students from West Berlin's Free University and other schools, it was clear that the Wall would cut off hundreds of classmates who lived in East Berlin but studied in the Western half of the city. Over beer and coffee in a cafe, they devised a daring scheme to outwit the Reds. Cutting classes and neglecting their books, the students blandly named themselves Das Reiseburo (the Travel Bureau) and swung into operation...
Lowell House's proposal to do away with reliance on the often abominable offerings of the Central Kitchen system, and their evidence that such a scheme may actually save the House some money, has brought Cambridge some of the sweetest tidings in years. It will not be long, one hopes, before this genuinely inspired spark burns in Eliot, Kirkland, and Winthrop also, and the Central Kitchens system, its pretense at tolerable cuisine, and its myriad indignities are done away with forever...
...more hints of compromise; Britain's Foreign Secretary Lord Home promised the "absolute minimum" of verification (the term now used for detection and inspection). On the larger question of what the experts call"G. & C" (general and complete disarmament), the U.S.'s Dean Rusk suggested an intriguing scheme designed to soften Russian fear of inspection "espionage." It was similar to the plan of random geo graphical samplings proposed by Harvard University's International Law Professor Louis B. Sohn. Under the "Sohn Zone" system, each country would be divided into a number of areas; once the nuclear nations...
...extreme right of his party reflect more than an ideological split. Californians reject the give-and-take game which most people consider politics, in favor of much more devious routes to power. The conspiratorial flavor of Birchism, rather than its philosophy, reflects this penchant--as does the elaborate scheme worked out in 1958 by ex-Senator Knowland for putting himself in the Governor's Mansion (and then, presumably, in the White House) and Goody Knight in the Senate. Knowland's scheme crashed around him, and like a defeated putsch-ist he has retired from politics completely...
...Telephones," the good book tells us, "now come in many beautiful decorator colors to blend with or accent the color scheme of your home furnishings." "If you have any communication need...there is a telephone service to meet...