Word: sole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teaching in his own sphere of knowledge. "We have sought out ability with football quarterbacks, we are beginning to do it with executives and musicians, but we haven't started with teachers," says Cornell President James Perkins. Even in some small colleges, where teaching is supposed to be the sole goal, says one university president who has visited nearly 400 campuses, "what they call an education is a fraud...
Cornell captain John Gallinatto, a clever control player, downed Crimson sophomore Bernie Adeisberg, 6-4, 6-2, for the sole Big Red victory. Adeisberg was filling the number one spot in place of Dave Benjamin, who did not make the trip...
...film, last week threatened to resign. The "Manifesto 1789," signed by French leaders in all walks of life, protested "against the formal attack on liberty of expression" that the ban signaled to them. The French film industry may well, out of spite, make Suzanne the nation's sole entry next month in the Cannes film festival, where no exhibition license is necessary...
...pandering." Brennan took dead aim at "those who would make a business of pandering to the widespread weakness for titillation by pornography." The result: a stiff new rule for obscenity cases that may make a peddler's conduct more important than his product. "Where the purveyor's sole emphasis is on the sexually provocative aspects of his publications, that fact may be decisive in the determination of obscenity...
...state duly returned his sole possession: the two pennies taken from him when he entered prison. Now a grey-haired, unemployed man of 57, Dennison understandably sued New York for $500,000 in damages. Last week the Court of Claims awarded him $115,000-freely admitting, in Judge' Heller's words, that "no sum of money would be adequate to compensate the claimant for the injuries he suffered and the scars which he obviously bears...