Word: third
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were duly dismissed from Harvard, which is a university known far and wide for its abhorrence of violence). I could go on. During the campaign for president of the U. S. last summer, many students heckled candidates, including Hubert Humphrey (who eventually finished second) and George Wallace (who finished third...
...Harvard on Registration Day for Freshmen, we began queueing up very early in front of Memorial Hall. I was bout a third of the way down the line. In the front was a Negro fellow with wonderful yellow sunglasses, except that I did not think they were wonderful then, being uptight (a word I learned later) and trying very hard to be a Harvard freshman. First it was sideburns --- Marty claims he was the first one in the freshman class with sideburns, but Marty, who is married now, always claimed such things. Then, it was wire-rimmed glasses...
White Rhodesians have demonstrated at every step on their road to independence their readiness to go to any lengths to assure their position. They have accepted some hardships resulting from international trade sanctions, though many of the sanctions have been bypassed through devious third-party transactions. Internally, unemployment among Africans has risen, but Smith has maintained employment for whites through government aid. For instance, he reactivated Rhodesia's Ford and British Motor Corp. assembly plants to produce new 1966 cars from a three-year-old supply of parts...
...drugs are recognized as highly effective against specific viral diseases: idoxuridine (IUDR) for corneal infections caused by the fever-blister virus, and methisazone against smallpox. What exercised the virologists most last week was a third chemical, amantadine, an anti-influenza drug that the Food and Drug Administration has licensed, but under strict controls. Trade-named Sym-metrel by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., amantadine does not cure a fullblown case of flu. But it may prevent infection if taken before exposure, and mitigate the illness if taken early enough afterward. The trouble with amantadine is that...
Debate over Morality. Nearly five years ago, Frei was elected on a moderate platform that promised to "Chileanize" the country's copper industry, then largely U.S.-owned, and double production to move it from third place to first place in the non-Communist world. His government offered tax cuts in return for production increases and a share of the ownership. Kennecott in 1967 sold Chile 51% of its El Teniente mine and promised a large expansion of operations by 1971. Chile paid the company $80 million and cut its taxes in half-down to 44% of revenues. Chile also...