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...over issues ranging from the quality of butter served in the dining comments to the internal social hierarchy imposed on undergraduates. A side from the events of 1969, the apparent high point for student rebellion came in 1834 when a dispute over University discipline led President Josiah Quincy to suspend the entire sophomore class for a year and to call in the local police to restore order to Harvard Yard. Fourth, the essay describes the sporadic and occasionally radical involvement of faculty and students in the political affairs of the nation. In this regard Lipset traces the origins...
...World Airways 727 chartered to fly refugees from the city. Several people were crushed as the plane took off; others fell to their deaths after trying to cling to the still open stairs and wheel wells. The incident and the unruly mobs at the airport caused the U.S. to suspend its program of evacuating refugees by air. The chaos and hopelessness in Danang moved President Ford to order four U.S. Navy transports to stand off the Vietnamese coast to pick up refugees and take them to safety. "I have directed that U.S. Government resources be made available to meet humanitarian...
...Pochentong Airport, fell into rebel hands for the third time since the start of the offensive. That put the airfield within range of the highly accurate U.S.-made 105-mm. howitzers that the rebels have captured. Constant shelling of the runway in mid-March forced the U.S. to suspend cargo flights for two days. With the insurgents once again zeroed in on the airport, it may be impossible for the U.S. to keep the supply line open...
...international runs, is now being put into effect. Seawell is also discussing the possibility of a merger with Eastern Airlines, American Airlines or TWA (which is having its own problems: 1974 losses totaled $23.6 million). At week's end Pan Am asked the CAB for authority to suspend much of its service in the Caribbean, where in the mid-1930s its globe-girdling expansion first took wing...
Surprising Humility. Few artists successfully cross the frontier from classical to modern dance. Never has Nureyev's artistry been more tested than it is in Paul Taylor's Aureole, in which he must suspend the classical dancer's vertical impulse and substitute the modern dancer's low-lying weight shifts. Nureyev submits to the choreography with surprising humility, subduing his famous high-intensity powers of projection...