Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agenda for today's session lists discussion of the October memorandum of Selective Service Director General Lewis B. Hershey Jr. and a review of Harvard's overall recruitment policies "in light of the coming visit...
...tried at all," he told reporters. The same spirit pervaded his other major message of the week: an eleven-page civil rights proposal that contained more rhetoric than innovation. Asking for no new legislation, Johnson concentrated on his major civil rights bills submitted but not passed during the last session: fair juries, fair housing, enforcement powers for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and stronger federal protection for those exercising civil rights. As important as anything in the two messages was the tone of expanded economic opportunity and sharper equal-rights legislation, which in all likelihood will...
Hobbit Holes. The loosely structured curriculum centers around month-long seminars on subjects that are selected as much by the students as by the staff. Youthful imagination is given free reign. In a seminar on sex and psychology, students thought it would be fitting to attend one session in the nude, although only one girl felt emancipated enough to do so. To study "aggression," the kids took to the woods, pounced from trees, acted out the roles of belligerent animals. After reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, they dug Hobbit holes, then crawled into them...
...Justice Hugo Black, who has long been known as an uncompromising foe of restrictions on free speech. Card burning did not seem to him to be covered by the First Amendment guarantee. Said he to the defense attorney at the close of the one and one-half hour session: "I'm trying to emphasize to you the difference between conduct and speech...
Priming the Pump. Deming led the U.S. delegation to a two-day Paris session of treasury and central bank officials from ten nations at which the Europeans charted their new course. At a meeting in the elegant privacy of Château de la Muette, home of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the group agreed that the wherewithal to finance world trade will shrink by $4 billion over the next twelve months as a result of the British and U.S. retrenchments. That is precisely the amount by which the reserves of the six Common Market countries rose during...