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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...onetime Texas sheriff, Foreman chose brains over brawn as a teen-ager when he landed a contract to load cotton at 25? a bale, then hired laborers to do the job at 8? a bale. At 16, Foreman quit the hamlet of Bold Springs to seek his fortune in Houston; he shined shoes, delivered papers, and hustled through the University of Texas law school. Of his clients, he likes to say mysteriously: "They may not always be right, but they are never wrong...
...sounds reasonable enough. But is an A in "recreation" at Wayout State, say, equivalent to a D in comparative philology at Harvard? And, more important, what about the principle involved? As Princeton's President Robert Goheen put it, the Ivies do not believe that "an athletic organization should seek to determine academic policy." At last count, more than 100 other schools (out of 573 N.C.A.A. members) were supporting the Ivy stand by ignoring the N.C.A.A. rule...
...increased scope of these future programs will make it possible for a large number of scientists from many countries to participate, and the committee will seek ways to ensure that all the scientists will be able to use new facilities, including orbiting labe and observatories, without interfering with each other's work. Such formal coordination has not been necessary in the past because of the limited size of the space programs...
...Labour Government has not, however, assumed the Gaullist posture of withdrawal. When France relinquished her colonies, she effectively abandoned all overseas military commitments. Moreover De Gaulle has now decided to withdraw France's troops from the NATO alliance. Britain, on the other hand, will seek to maintain her traditional presence east of Suez, though limiting the scope of her military potential...
...United Federation of College Teachers, a local of the American Federation of Teachers (AFL-CIO), has not sought union recognition or collective bargaining in this dispute. It has, and continues to seek, mediation, reinstatement of the 31 pending fair hearings, no reprisals against strikers, and the right of the union to meet on campus and distribute its materials as any other faculty association. Dr. Israel Kugler, President Rev. Peter O'Reilly Chairman S. John's Chapter