Word: units
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walter A. Rosenblith, provost of MIT, said yesterday that although the institute is not willing to act as a "metropolitan unit" for the Boston area, it does not object to allowing Harvard students to enroll in the program so long as the increased size does not disrupt its functioning...
Cabrera's pessimism and deadpan ironic tone cement these vignettes into a book. Whether he is describing some feat of unbelievable bravery, such as peasants armed only with machetes attacking a Spanish cavalry unit, or some remarkable complacency or quite ordinary cowardice, he always deflates heroic claims that men control their destinies. Battles are planned with elaborate strategy and won by blind chance. So many of these images are both horrible and accidentally funny that they finally detach the reader from any feeling but irony...
...castle, 250 miles south of San Francisco, is now owned by the state. A little-known terrorist group, the New World Liberation Front, announced that it had set off the violent blast. Unless the Hearsts contributed $250,000 within 48 hours to the defense of the Harrises, warned the unit, the "Hearst castle will only be the beginning." The group also brazenly proclaimed that if Patty had been released on bail, "she would never have made it to her trial alive...
...left to play in the contest, the Crimson squad had a 4-2 lead thanks mostly to the efforts of Phelps Swift, who scored Harvard's first hat trick of the season. Harvard netminder Brian Petrovek looked sharp, shutting out Dartmouth in the second period, and the penalty killing unit had defused three consecutive Big Green power plays...
Student activists at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst are taking a novel approach to the problem of organizing a student body. In an attempt to institutionalize student power, they are trying to form a student union which would possess all the legal powers of a collective bargaining unit...