Word: shaked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shimmers with tension in the crowded room. All eyes are focused on the action at the tables. The players hunch over the board, sweating with strain; and when they leave, whether in victory or defeat, their hands shake for minutes...
Unless Bradley can work a miracle, this should be the end of the line for Princeton. Providence, the country's fourth-ranked team, has lost only once this year. Their defensive play has been brilliant all season, and unless Bradley can shake loose for about 40 points, Providence will be making the trip to Portland, Ore. for the national championship next week. Michigan 98 Dayton 71 San Francisco 91 Oklahoma City 76 Wichita 86 Southern Methodist 81 Vanderbit 83 DePaul 78 Oklahoma State 75 Houston...
Taking the Heat Off. After years of trying to shake a too frequently justified image as only puffed-up high schools, the junior colleges have earned general acceptance as one of the most dynamic and useful assets of higher education. Last year 41 new two-year colleges, many boasting spectacular architecture and facilities (see following color pages), opened their doors, bringing the total to 719. Their enrollment has nearly doubled since 1950, is just over a million (1,043,000). One out of every five college students in the U.S. now goes to a junior college...
...Shake-Up. Until four years ago, the intellectual life was as placid as the setting. Then former Governor William F. Quinn fired the entire board of regents, appointed an energetic new group headed by Dole Corp. President Herbert C. Cornuelle. This board brought in Hamilton, who began a ten-year development program that strives for particular excellence in those fields in which Hawaii enjoys natural advantages. Hamilton sees these as the behavioral sciences related to the area's multicultural citizenry, those cultural disciplines in which "the East-West dialogue is best promoted," and natural sciences tied to Hawaii...
Last week a former Phoumi aide, Colonel Bounleut Sycocie, suddenly ordered three companies of Royal Laotian troops to occupy the Vientiane radio station. Taking over the microphone, Bounleut broadcast a demand for a shake-up in the rightist high command, which the Sananikones interpreted as an attempt at a Phoumi comeback. When Bounleut's troops blossomed out with blue neckerchiefs, Kouprasith's forces replied by donning yellow ones (most Asian armies are well supplied with colored kerchiefs, which are used as identifying insignia for the various battalions...