Word: springs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last spring the Committee of Fifteen, exercising similar powers, separated five students and required another eight to withdraw for a semester or a year for their roles in the occupation of University Hall last April. In addition, the Committee recommended that the Faculty "dismiss" three others-a more severe punishment which the Faculty approved-require 20 to withdraw (but suspended their sentences) and put 99 students under warnings...
...quoting an aide, "there are not going to be too many more people we can offend." He ticked off a list of the recently alienated: farmers (by the ban on DDT), the overweight (by the ban on cyclamates) and sportsmen (by the impounding of Lake Michigan coho salmon last spring). "The first problem we have," said Finch, "is 40,000 inflammable Santa Clauses. I guess HEW will be known as the department that killed Santa Claus...
...sort of invasion against its diminutive neighbor to the south-one that may prove to be every bit as troublesome. Last year some 3,000 Chinese road builders moved across the border of China's Yunnan province into northern Laos. By the time the monsoon rains began last spring, the Chinese had pushed a gravel-topped all-weather road 55 miles south as far as Muong Sai, a town on an important Mekong River tributary, then northeast toward North Viet Nam. Last September, as the rains ended, the coolies moved on-this time southwestward through the Beng Valley toward...
...again in 1957, stronger doses of DDD killed them off. About the same time, the lake's population of grebes began to decrease, dropping from 1,000 pairs to only 20 within one year. The baffling change was explained in 1962 by Rachel Carson, in Silent Spring. Grebes, she wrote, feed mainly on fish. The fish, in turn, eat insect larvae and zooplankton, and these foods had become saturated with the DDD dumped into Clear Lake. Thus, over a long period, the grebes accumulated lethal amounts of the long-lasting pesticide in their tissues and died by the hundreds...
...style is called either Belle Époque (after turn-of-the-century coiffures), or "Oscar's hairdo" (after Designer Oscar de la Renta, who put topknots on all the models at his spring collections last month). Mr. Kenneth finds the look soft, romantic, and most important, "not terrifying to a man. To him, it looks as if it's all up there with just one pin, and he's got to think 'If only I can find it, in a matter of seconds it will all be out on the pillow...