Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hunter College, a coalition of 17 militant student groups chained doors, blocked hallways, raided cafeterias, and virtually shut down the 19,000-student (mostly women) school's campus in Manhattan. The so-called "People's Coalition" made 34 demands, including equal student and faculty representation on all policymaking bodies, greater autonomy for the Black and Puerto Rican Studies department, and curriculum changes at Hunter High School, which is affiliated with the college. Mrs. Jacqueline Wexler, a former nun who recently became Hunter's new president, agreed with many of the demands and suspended classes to permit broader...
Only one mechanical bug marred the launch: the inboard engine of the Saturn rocket's second stage shut down two minutes prematurely. But the remaining four engines of the stage automatically compensated by firing 33 seconds longer than programmed, and the third-stage S-4B rocket burned an extra ten seconds to boost the spacecraft unerringly into earth orbit. Then, after 1½ revolutions of the earth, a five-minute blast from the S-4B sent the fifth U.S. manned lunar mission on a long glide toward the moon...
...boldest and bravest of Westerners will tread upon the moving sidewalks or the brimming monorail, which always looks as if it is carrying troops to the front. One group of elderly ladies piled up on the sidewalk like dominoes; 42 of them were injured, and the walk was shut down for days. Electric shuttle cars, which generally have been immobilized by the huge crowds of pedestrians, may soon be taken out of service...
While M.C. Bob Hope was making his embarrassingly reverent tribute to the film industry, the Mitchell guests tuned out ("Oh shut up, Bob Hope!" yelled Shirley MacLaine) and divvied up their own prizes for predicting the Oscar outcome. Jack Cassidy, a master student of the Academy's cynicism and sentimentality, scored a perfect seven out of seven and won a pair of cuff links. Ruth Berle, with three out of seven, took home a consolation award of an autographed glossy photo of Ruth Roman. Meanwhile, unwatched on any of the Mitchells' TV sets, Bob Hope was asking...
About the only short-distance running that Harvard can count on for points is the 440 hurdles, where Walter Johnson and Ben Lounsbury have a good chance to shut out the Tigers...