Word: turn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worry about the population explosion -but we don't worry about it at the right time." He doesn't have much faith in birth-control pills, but was intrigued by an experimental pill for males that had only one drawback: it caused men's eyeballs to turn red if they drank alcohol. "I mean, there you are, an attractive young lady. You walk into a cocktail party crowded with handsome young bachelors. Half have red eyeballs, half don't. Which . . . well, we'd soon separate the ladies from the girls...
...yards have so far built nothing greater than 109,000 d.w.t. but Bethlehem Steel and Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock are gearing up to turn out tankers in the 200,000-d.w.t. class. Even those will seem small next to the foreign-built ships of the future. Japan's Nippon Kokan next month will open a dock that can accommodate an 800,000-tonner, and Belfast's Harland & Wolff is constructing a new facility that should be able to handle a million-d.w.t. vessel...
...borrowing money has been rising rapidly ever since the Federal Reserve Board decided last December to get tough about inflation. Last week the deliberate squeeze on credit pushed many interest rates to the highest levels since 1929, causing considerable anxiety among bankers. Many moneymen fear that one more turn of the Federal Reserve's monetary screws might, as the Bank of America put it, cause "serious disruption in the financial markets and create conditions that would generate a recession...
Without these financial arguments the high fees and admissions process would be seen as glaring bias and pressure might build to turn Harvard into a merit-based institution. That would be the sort of place, as Dean Bender pointed out, which the two Roosevelts would hardly have been "admitted to or would have wanted to enter. . . . " This last, of course, is crucial. Bender makes it quite clear that -- financial arguments aside -- Harvard perceives as its purpose the education of the real leaders of tomorrow. And with firm sociological insight, it recognizes that potential leaders are most likely...
...suggest, two closely related prerequisites for any accommodation that may still make possible serious intellectual work. One would be a shift in emphasis among the moral revolutionaries toward building a firm and substantial basis of popular support around demands whose legitimacy would be widely acknowledged, with a turn to more militant tactics only when they had been unable to get a hearing for such demands. The other condition would be a widening by the university authorities of their conception of acceptable political behavior to include, on a de facto basis, limited interruptions of normal university routines. Such interruptions would have...