Word: senior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flew a Heinkel air ambulance in Ethiopia, helping victims of Italian aggression. When Russia attacked Finland, he signed up as a lieutenant in the Finnish air force. In the Congo in 1960, Von Rosen flew supplies for Swedish troops on United Nations peace-keeping duty. Now a senior pilot for a charter flight service called Transair Sweden, Von Rosen last summer hauled relief supplies to Biafra...
...promoted himself from colonel overnight) Gaafar Mohamed Nimeri, 40, a dour single-minded soldier who received training at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Nimeri had earned his reputation as a daring soldier fighting the black guerrillas to the south. When other senior officers sent junior men on patrol, Nimeri personally led his men in jungle forays...
...summarized in a petition circulated by a group of teaching fellows during Harvard's recent student strike. Said the petition, which was signed by more than a thousand Harvard students: "Professors are hired for their research achievements, not their teaching ability. Almost the only educational technique employed by senior faculty members is the lecture, involving no communication or concern. Grades are awarded for effective mimicry. The university seems not to care for the self-understanding, self-respect or independent thought of its students...
...courses on determinedly "relevant" topics, ranging from radical politics to the ethics of middle-class suburbia. The quality of the bull sessions is necessarily uneven. David A. Lane, a teaching fellow in history, is studying Claude Lévi-Strauss in a New College course led by a senior majoring in folklore and mythology. Lane calls the meetings "the best intellectual discussions I've ever participated...
Morrow is the chief and only judge of the territorial court of Canada's Northwest Territories. As such, he is the senior representative of Her Majesty's law in 1,300,000 sq. mi. of frozen northland, all of it lying above the 60th latitude. There are only 32,000 people in that expanse, and local justices of the peace handle most of the legal problems. But since those accused of most crimes are entitled to be tried by a judge, Morrow rides the circuit by chartered plane and Skimobile...