Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City at 9 p.m. Thursday, and already the crowd was beginning to form outside St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue. The church was not to be open to the public until 5:30 the next morning, but some waited on the sidewalks through the warm night. Then, thousands upon thousands, in line for as long as seven hours, they marched past the great bronze doors for a glimpse of the closed mahogany casket. The black, the young and the poor were heavily represented: Bobby Kennedy's special constituents...
Ford has been aware of prevalent cynicism toward committees in general, and says it has often proven a problem for him to convince persons that he was not setting up a committee so as not to do something. He says he heard this when he decided upon the committee on the uses of computers in instruction. That committee's report this year will have an initial pay-off next Fall when four computer consoles are installed in the Houses and Harvard Yard for undergraduate...
Once a special committee is decided upon, the problem becomes staffing it. For Ford, the first question is a chairman. He says John T. Dunlop, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, was an "ideal choice" to chair this year's Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Faculty. Dunlop had just finished a term as chairman of the Economics Department, his field--economics--was a large, central one in the University, and his specialty within the field--manpower and labor relations--was relevant to the committee's topic...
...Iranian people will never accept that the U. S. has or ever had any right to interfere in Iranian internal affairs. By doing so since 1953, the U. S. has already begun a war against Iran." It said that the Shah was brought to power in 1953 "and imposed upon the Iranian people. He has stayed in power only through military oppression...
...citation: "A voice of reason in a turbulent time; a determined leader unfailingly bent upon insuring equal opportunity for all our citizens...