Word: straightened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time last week, rumors raced through Europe that the Soviets might straighten out a few more ideological frontiers while they were at it in Czechoslovakia. Pravda ominously charged that both Rumania's Ceausescu and Yugoslavia's Tito were siding with the "reactionaries" in the Prague regime. But both Communist leaders made it clear that if their countries were at tacked, the invaders would have a shooting resistance on their hands, unlike the situation in Czechoslovakia. The ar mies of both countries were put on alert. Tito and Ceausescu were concerned enough over Czechoslovakia, in fact, to get together for talks...
...pulled to a halt inside the barbed-wire compound that Viet Nam's national television station shares with the U.S. Armed Forces network stu dios. Inside, he settled himself behind a green-cloth-covered table, permitted a makeup man to powder his high forehead, but refused to straighten his loosely knotted tie. "It will look more nat ural," he said. Then the cameras rolled and the President of South Viet Nam delivered his first major policy address to the South Vietnamese people...
...back offices of brokerage firms have not expanded and automated fast enough to keep up with the increase. In the resulting snarl of tape and paper, countless buyers have either received the wrong confirmation slips and stock certificates or failed to receive any at all. As they struggle to straighten out the mess, brokers earning upward of $50,000 a year have had to spend as much time doing the work of $80-a-week stock clerks as they do studying the stocks they sell so profitably. For the past two weeks, the market has had to close early...
PERHAPS the scariest aspect of President Pusey's commentary was his assertion that it is the job of the deans to straighten all this out. "Bringing students of this persuasion back to reality presents a new kind of challenge to education, to faculty certainly, but especially and with painful immediacy, perhaps to deans." With all due respect, the prospect of marching bravely to the new world, in a column headed by Messrs. Ford, Glimp and Watson, is not overly appetizing to most Harvard students. One suspects that the Deans, too, would find it unappealing...
Curle remains convinced, however, that education can provide answers to the problems of rising expectation. He will be on sabbatical next semester and hopes to use the time to straighten out his thoughts on how schooling can prepare black children, particularly in the States, for the rude awakening graduation provides. In April, Merril Jackson of Michigan State University's Center for Conflict Resolution is coming to Harvard to work with Curle...