Word: stoppings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...march on Washington. Even so, a few campuses had troubles that seemed big to them if not to headline writers. Items: >At Vassar College, about 30 black women students seized part of the administration building at 3:20 a.m., locked themselves inside and vowed to "stop the school" until their demands for a black-studies program and separate black housing were met. At week's end the militants, having mobilized half of Vassar's 59 black students, ended their sit-in, saying they had won tentative agreement to their demands. > Langston University was roiled by the firing...
...government. Stanford and Cornell are trying that solution with their own special labs.* It might please moderate students and faculty who do not object to weapons research as such but consider it out of place in a university. It definitely would not please the radicals, who want to stop all war-related research at the special labs, whether or not M.I.T. operates them...
...Eightfold Way. From strangeness, Gell-Mann and Israeli Physicist Yuval Ne'eman progressed to a new theory that Gell-Mann named the "eightfold way" (after the eight ways that Buddhists use to stop pain). It organized the particles into groups of eight or ten members. To fill gaps in his table, he postulated yet unencountered particles. In 1964, his theory was strong]y confirmed by the discovery of a bit of matter that Gell-Mann had previously described: the omega-minus particle...
...about. The citizens of lotusland seem forever to be lolling around swimming pools, sautéing in the sun, packing across the Sierra, frolicking nude on the beaches, getting taller each year, plucking money off the trees, romping around topless, tramping through the redwoods and-when they stop to catch their breath-preening themselves on-camera before the rest of an envious world. "I have seen the future," says the newly returned visitor from California, "and it plays...
Steep, narrow streets, wrinkled old Chinese selling vegetables, white matrons walking with their arms full of laundry, families of tourists admiring the shops and looking for a Chinese restaurant. People smile, stop and talk on the street; it is predictably peaceful. But in Portsmouth Square, 200 people mill around a rostrum. On the platform are an army bugler, a line of speakers and a big sign that says...