Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nicosia looked as tranquil as the Mediterranean that laps the island's shores. In one suburb, children skipped rope while their elders played tennis near by. It took a sharp eye to spot the sandbags piled in upper-story windows. Behind some sat flinty-eyed Greek Cypriots with automatic weapons. Behind others were grim-faced Turkish Cypriots with bolt-action rifles. On a roof behind still another row of sandbags stood a Danish noncom attached to the United Nations peacekeeping force, stationed in Cyprus for the past two years. "Sure, it's dull today," he said...
...able to test the proposition that senior year is the best time for General Education. The new Gen Ed program makes this approach more practicable; after all, the senior who might feel sheepish about taking Hum 2 would be less reluctant to enroll in one of the new upper-level Gen Ed courses. The senior would also be able to use his liberated time to hear that one lecturer he'd always wanted to hear or to complete the extracurricular project he never had time for before...
Competing with one another and with Government groups such as the CIA and the FBI, corporations are trimming requirements. G.E. once took 81% of its college hirelings from the upper quarter of their classes, now gets only 47% at that level. Companies formerly thumbed down draft-subject students but will now hire a 1-A for as little as three months in hopes of generating a corporate loyalty that will last until he gets...
...Americans, being on the giving end of modernization, got a great deal more fun out of Sino-American relations. In the privileged status thrust upon them by the treaty system, most Americans enjoyed their contact with China, the chance to be an upper-class foreigner riding in a rickshaw while still remaining an egalitarian grassroots democrat in one's own concience. For an average American to go abroad and find himself a rich man by comparison with the local people is also quite enjoyable. The Chinese were very polite, and countless Americans made warm friends among them. The American people...
There's likely to be some fun for Quincy House, too. Dunn is known to wear a dress kilt to formal Lowell House dinners, and he and his wife excel at Scottish country dancing. As for the bagpipes, "the upper pent-house of Quincy," he says, "is a very suitable place for them...