Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...footing. Saigon and the U.S. are likely to reject such an arrangement on the ground that it would give tacit recognition to the Viet Cong. Possible solutions: a round table, or a square one set up in the shape of a diamond, enabling one side to assemble along the upper half and the other along the lower half. Said one U.S. official: "We may put the French furniture industry to a real test before we're through...
...that Jewish voters, many upper-middle-class whites, Negroes, women, McCarthyites, blue-collar workers, young professionals and white-collar workers in the East, all turned out heavily for Mr. Humphrey. Southerners voted for Mr. Wallace. Apparently Mr. Nixon was elected solely by wealthy white Christian male Americans outside of the South. Amazing...
...that remained open or in makeshift classrooms set up on parental initiative. At least 7,500 U.F.T. members violated union orders by teaching outside of union-authorized schools. In many areas, parents physically occupied their schools to make sure they stayed open; at P.S. 84 on Manhattan's upper West Side, parents took turns guarding the doors and patrolling the halls to make sure that the building was not locked by custodians sympathetic to the U.F.T. The city's school lunch program, which normally provides 400,000 lunches daily, served more than 160,000 a day during...
STILL SEEKING that ineffable moment. I attended the risorgimiento of the Harvard Glee Club in the annual Harvard-Yale concert. The Yale group began with a thin version of Palestrina's Supplicationes for main chorus and responsive small choir (which joined me in the Tibetan heights of the upper balcony) and proceeded to good performances of Holst's delightful Blacksmith Song and Dowland's beautiful Come Again, Sweet Love. Their part closed with a stupendously tedious arrangement by Fenno Heath of Donne's Death Be Not Proud. The Harvard Glee Club performed a less interesting program except for a mildly...
Bell set up another scoring play when he booted a corner kick to Phil Kydes, into the upper right corner of the strings. A few minutes later, Bell almost scored Kydes jumped high and headed the ball again. His kick hit the top bar of the goal and bounced straight down, but the referee nullified the score, saying the whole ball had not gone into the goal...