Word: sufferance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while picking up more game chances. "America's service stations stand in danger of becoming one enormous coast-to-coast casino," warns E. D. Brockett, chairman of Gulf Oil Corp., one of the few major oil companies to abstain from the games. "Costs will rise and service will suffer," says Brockett, who foresees the day when motorists will say, "Fill her up, check the oil, and where's the roulette wheel...
...Paul A. Vernaglia said that surgeons feel his son "will probably suffer no permanent damage" as the result of the injuries he suffered when he and Charles P. Pieper '69 were attacked and beaten by a gang of five men on Dunster Street in front of Kirkland House...
...travel outside the Western Hemisphere," but also promised to ask Congress to put teeth in the ban. Most likely: a head tax of $100 or more per person per trip. If Congress enacts effective curbs, the $14 billion world tourist industry, among the largest ingredients of world trade, will suffer quite a jolt. Some 3,000,000 U.S. tourists spend 20% of the annual total, including $800 million in Europe...
With the snows of winter comes a traumatic experience for 1,400,000 of the nation's preparatory and high school students: they must suffer through the three-hour Scholastic Aptitude Tests. Much of the agony stems from the exaggerated belief of many students that their S.A.T. scores will determine whether they get into the college of their choice-or even any college at all. For the most part, the pain is pointless. A number of educators now contends that the tests are an imprecise indicator of future success-and colleges are relying on them less and less...
...fourth in the city's history, as well as an adjacent 29-story office building, the superstructure of cavernous Pennsylvania Station had to be demolished and all its facilities moved underground. This meant scheduling construction so that the 200,000 travelers pouring into the station each day would suffer minimum inconvenience. Although computers were used to lick the logistics, the station's baggage-claim area still has had to be moved no fewer than 16 times since construction began back...