Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Preliminary plans call for the new dining area to seat about 50. It will be built in place of the coat room that presently adjoins the main dining hall. The room will be connected to the main section by a sliding door, and will be constructed with partitions that could divide the room if necessary...
Asked why he thought society was "sick," Feiffer replied, "I pick up a newspaper in the morning, and it's the only logical conclusion I can come to." (He is particularly disturbed about nuclear tests, radiation fallout, etc. as is evidenced by his section in Passionella entitled "Bomb.") "All I'm doing is counting heads...
...readers of TIME'S Letters section (and, indeed, of the daily newspapers) well know, TIME has been hotly criticized in recent weeks for its coverage of unpleasant news in some countries friendly to the U.S., notably for stories of the economic crisis in Bolivia, the aftermath of revolution in Cuba, and government corruption in the Philippines. Replying to this criticism has given us the opportunity to restate some truths about TIME, and I thought you might like to see where we stand. The following is the text of one reply to a critic...
From a pine-covered knoll near Hof (pop. 60,000) in central Germany, five G.I.s of Bravo Company. 2nd U.S. Armored Cavalry, last week stood watchful guard on a section of the Iron Curtain. Staff Sergeant William S. Nolen Jr.. 21. of Mt. Holly. N.C.. in charge of this pinpoint on 500 miles of West German frontier, had his .30-cal. machine guns dug in. his field telephone ready at hand. Beyond the barbed wire and strip of plowed land that marked the border lay the peaceful green hills of East Germany's Thuringia-and as close...
...objection to Wellesley must then come from something less specific than dress or a section of the country--it must come against an atmosphere. This atmosphere seems revealed best in the class sections, the basic way of teaching at Wellesley...