Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right to discriminate against me as a student simply because my beliefs differ from theirs. Should I have to start checking out the attitude a professor has towards ROTC before taking a class? How would a professor such as Mr. Wylie react if I for some reason wore my uniform to class...
...National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament on television this week will be Tom Scates, the 6-ft. 10-in. former Georgetown University center. A 1979 graduate, he was once a mainstay of a winning team, and his hopes were pinned on making the pros. Today he is in uniform all right -- as a doorman at a downtown Washington hotel. A gentle Goliath with a cavernous bass voice and a ready smile, he wears a pith helmet and has a whistle dangling around his neck to summon cabs. "There's more to life than sports," he says. "It's a hard...
...sense, Adams was saved by the media, he is now at risk of becoming their prisoner. Released on $50,000 bond three weeks after the appellate-court ruling, Adams was soon out of his orange prison uniform and into a borrowed shirt and tie, then whisked off to a Houston studio to appear on Nightline, the first of a slam-bang round of television appearances. Awkward at first, Adams quickly seemed as comfortable as Tom Hanks discussing his latest movie on Johnny Carson's couch. For the moment, prying reporters have become as ever present as guards. On the plane...
...Cosmic Background Explorer, a satellite that will study the background microwave radiation that emanates from every part of the cosmos. These microwaves are thought by astrophysicists to be the faint afterglow of the Big Bang explosion, which started the universe, and they pose a riddle. The glow is uniform in all directions to within 1 part in 10,000, implying that the Big Bang was a perfectly uniform explosion. But the modern universe is filled with clusters of matter called galaxies, and there is no clear explanation of how a smooth explosion could produce a lumpy cosmos. COBE's sensitive...
...officials came to Washington on Wednesday to beg Secretary of State James Baker to reconsider the ban. In Chile hundreds of workers demonstrated. Trucks loaded with free fruit wound through the streets. Autos sprouted signs bearing the message MY FAMILY EATS CHILEAN FRUIT. President Augusto Pinochet, in full military uniform, popped a few seedless white grapes into his mouth for television cameras...