Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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YESTERDAY'S sit-in at University Hall was not a sensational event and probably will not prove sensationally effective. Wisely ignoring the Dow recruiter two blocks away, the 200 protesters did make their point--that they not only deplore the Vietnam war but also reject the notion that the University can remain neutral to the war effort. It is hard to tell whether anyone listened, but the SDS-led protest was serious and cohesive and may accelerate the SFAC debate on recruitment policy and lead to more productive war protest efforts like the draft resistance union being organized here next...
Writing about exercise was for Koffend a jog across familiar terrain. Hardly a day passes when he does not do his pushups, sit-ups and jogs-in-place either at home or at the office. His expertise in the subject is matched by that of Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson, who is often involved with Essay, and for this one was a prime source. Shnayerson runs for his life every morning along the shoulder of Manhattan's car-clogged Henry Hudson Parkway, or in nearby Riverside Park, averaging 20 miles a week. One hazard of running in the park...
...Mediterranean, keeping a watch offshore when the carriers go into port and taking up the chase again when they come out. A fleet of espionage ships keeps watch off U.S. Polaris submarine bases at such places as Holy Loch in Scotland, Rota in Spain and Charleston, S.C. Other snoopers sit off Seattle, New England, and Cape Kennedy, where the Soviets monitor the U.S. space shots...
...cleaning and recleaning the M-16 rifles they expect to use against the NVA's 304th and 325-C Divisions. "Mortar bait!" they scream as big transports lumber onto the metal runway. Then they dart into bunkers, knowing that the planes usually attract "incoming." The Marines just sit and wait to be attacked, primarily because seeking out the enemy could cost more lives and casualty-consciousness has been drummed into every commander. The fact that they do not patrol means that Khe Sanh's original purpose-to interdict enemy infiltration-has been abandoned. As the tension builds, Marines...
...like sackcloth and he looks like ashes. Scott's countenance of epic frustration is phenomenally funny: a middle-aged Lear confronted with a thankless offspring. The evening's master treat, a carnival of sight-and-sound gags, this skit shows how Simon and Nichols can take a sit uation no bigger than a snowball and dislodge an avalanche of hilarity...