Word: units
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Garden City High School on Long Island, where a group of 100 juniors and seniors take a coordinated program based on such major philosophical themes as man's search for order and meaning in life, his adjustment to change and his yearning for self-expression. In an opening unit on "The World Today," the social-studies teachers deal with man's fears of nuclear war, poverty and lost identity. English classes analyze contemporary writings on violence, brotherhood, situation ethics and alienation. The art and music teachers seek to define the values implicit in modern painting, commercial art, jazz...
...exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution is a solid-state computer of 1957 vintage, the first practical large-scale model ever built. This cybernetic antique served as the guidance system for U.S. ICBMs until 1961 and ticked off more than 300 countdowns. The unit was built by the Burroughs Corp. of Detroit, which, though short on share of market-less than 4% com pared with IBM's 75%-is long on invention, reliability, and lately, profits...
Austin hoped last month that the program could be vitalized without formal Council action. The Council requested before Thanksgiving that the freshman council members, proctors, and the senior advisor of each of the five units of the Yard meet informally with the associates assigned to their unit to discuss problems of the program...
...names of "on duty" proctors would be posted in the dorms so that freshmen could call them if there was trouble, he said. The proctors would stay in their rooms except for one circuit of their assigned unit of the Yard...
...allowing the Georgia legislature to elect the governor, the Court has retreated from the position it enunciated clearly in its decision on the county unit system: "The conception of political equality from the Declaration of Independence, to Lincoln's Gettysberg Address, to the Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Nineteenth Amendments can mean only one thing -- one person, one vote...