Word: session
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the glass flowers were inspected, the bus moved back down Massachusetts Avenue to the Common. A be-in was in session. "Here's an example of free speech, some guy talkin to a crowd of people about sumpthin he knows nuthin about. On the right-hand side is the Sheraton-Commander Hotel, Cambridge's oldest...
...first time in her history, a summer school session became part of the regular college schedule. Harvard officials declared the twelve-week period equal to a semester, to hurry the Seniors off to war. On June 29, after a month's vacation, the Class of '43 registered for a last abbreviated year...
...Education Reporter Peter Babcox. At his alma mater, Columbia College (Class of '60), he taped the thoughts of Rebel Student Leader David Shapiro during a taxi ride to Queens, where the Phi Beta Kappa poet was to give a reading. Later, Peter sat in on a midnight bull session with students in Buffalo, then drove the next morning to State College, Pa., with Sociologist Edgar Friedenberg, interviewing him en route. Babcox ended his school swing in a talk with a Penn State senior while flying back to New York. Checking out the facts in Manhattan was Researcher Erika Sanchez...
...exercises" in Czechoslovakia of troops from the Soviet bloc. The soldiers, most of them from the signal corps, were prompt to arrive. At week's end, the first of about 3,000 Soviet forces crossed the Russian border into eastern Slovakia even as the Central Committee was in session. Many Czechoslovaks were alarmed, seeing their coming as an unsubtle attempt to influence the committee while it was debating the fate of the pro-Soviet conservatives...
...Pentagon need to spend American taxes to learn the black arts of Congolese witch doctors? Fulbright's query momentarily hexed Dr. John S. Foster Jr., the Defense Department's director of research, into an admission of ignorance. But in releasing Foster's testimony before a closed session of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, the Pentagon last week righted the record. Witchcraft, it contended, is part of modern warfare: the $522.50 study analyzed the key role of Congolese sorcerers in the 1964 Simba uprising, when U.S. aircraft dropped Belgian paratroopers to rescue foreign hostages in Stanleyville. Dawa...