Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty votes to make the Gen Ed program easier to understand by renaming lower-level requirements "basic requirements" and upper-level requirements "total program requirements." The governor of an Argentinian province illegally seizes seven boxes of Harvard fossils. Timothy Leary is arrested in Millbrook, N.Y., for allegedly possessing narcotics, pleads innocent and is released on $5000 bail, announces that he is going to stop using LSD because of possible side-effects, and asks Harvard for two months' back salary...
...aspired to a career in professional baseball, approached his commission with zest. His nine sequential oil studies of Marichal in the act of making a single pitch are a rare example of an artist catching this kind of action. "You will notice," says Gooch, "that the three panels from upper right to lower left, in a diagonal line through the center, sum up the action of the pitch. It's sort of a slow-motion sequence. It's what you see at the ball game. The action shown in the other panels happens too fast for most persons...
Police Inspector John Powers, however, indirectly chided Bova for not following the rulebook when he put his revolver-and the whole upper part of his body-inside a suspicious car. Said he: "When an officer sticks his head in the door of the car, he stands the chance of either being shot or struck by the suspect in the vehicle. He places himself at a disadvantage...
...Otherwise, he said, "the Americans and their servants would establish a militaristic national assembly." If Tri Quang's usually pear-shaped tones lost some of their resonance, it was because, for all the week's burnt offerings to the Buddhist cause, Premier Ky still had the upper hand in a nation beginning to weary of pointless civil strife amid a genuine, far more deadly battle for national survival against the Communists...
...face is familiar, but . . . Italian Painter Pietro Annigoni, 56, wouldn't say who she was, though he did tell a wry tale about his portrait of the lady in London's Upper Grosvenor Gallery. "This woman came all the way from California to my studio in Florence," he chuckled. "She said: 'I have the most beautiful body in the world, and I wish you to paint me in the nude.' I had never had a proposition like that before. I thought it was a commission. As it turned out, it wasn't. All she wanted...