Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their annual meeting held in Sanders Theatre on Tuesday, the National Association of Graduate School Deans endorsed a plan to scrap the present Selective Service laws in favor of a draft lottery. Their recommendations, which are similar to the ones made by the President's Marshall Commission last March and endorsed by the CRIMSON, give the Administration and Congress an excellent opportunity to reconsider the lottery as a method for draft selection...
...cutting prices last February, the company got some extra sales push out of its slow-moving Rambler American economy line. It decided to scrap its ill-conceived Marlin fastback effective with the 1968 model-year, meanwhile cut back production on all '67 models to make sure that it would not be stuck with unsold cars. "Since January," says Luneburg, "we've operated at about halftime. I've never seen it before-and I never want to again...
...more vicious than the Sinai campaign of 1956. The few roads which cross the Sinai desert are lined with burnt-out trucks and tanks, while the Mitla Pass (a strategic pass through the mountains of Western Sinai near the Suez Canal) appears to be an enormous junk-heap of scrap metal. Although some of the damage to the seven Egyptian divisions stationed in the Sinai came from three Israeli armer divisions, most of it was the work of the superb Israeli Air Force which dominated the skies after catching some 450 assorted planes (most of them on the ground...
...against" teachers suspected of harboring anti-Mao views-will mean the loss of two years of education before the school system is put back in running order. But this may be the least of China's troubles. For behind the scenes, Mao's advisers are proposing to scrap the old curriculum, generally based on Western models, and substitute instead a program aimed at producing indoctrinated revolutionists first, scholars and technicians second, which may keep China's schools and universities hobbled for years to come...
...nationalist and in 1947 his new country's first chief executive, a schoolmarmish aristocrat who in 1964 came out of a 16-year retirement following the death of her brother to oppose Mohammed Ayub Khan for the presidency, bitterly but unsuccessfully accusing the military leader of seeking to "scrap the constitution" and set up a dictatorship; of a heart attack; in Karachi...