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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Presidential Transition Act were in force. The act authorizes up to $900,000 for the expenses of the changeover and allows the President to make available extensive facilities, including office space, for his successor's advance party. Johnson went beyond the letter of the law by letting Nixon use his new, heavily armored, $175,000 Lincoln limousine, though he has yet to try it out himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: AN INTERREGNUM WITHOUT RANCOR | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...armed with a platoon of pro prospects, Cozza prepares for the biggest challenge of his coaching career. He admits Harvard is tough: "any team with a kicker [Rich Szaro] who has trouble deciding which foot to use from the 35-yard line has got to be tough." But Yale, he believes, is tougher...

Author: By Patrick J. Hindert, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Eli Coach Cozza Says Yale Can't Lose Game | 11/21/1968 | See Source »

...resolution also lists five specific steps--including denying ROTC the use of any campus buildings and replacing ROTC scholarships with Harvard financial aid--to oust ROTC from the University...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: SDS Plan to Expel ROTC Set to Go Before Faculty | 11/21/1968 | See Source »

...Hahn, the troupe's most mature and accomplished performer--rudely pushed a chair across the stage. Then she repeated exactly the same gesture without the chair: we had passed to mime. Finally, again without the chair, she abstracted the gestures, exaggerating them, extending the slow, speeding up the fast, using her whole body to carry out a movement which her foot or her arm had performed alone. Now we had dance. The company passed through the same elaborations to show the use of space, time, and energy. Finally, combining these elements and varying the combinations, they had developed a nearly...

Author: By Kerry Gruson, | Title: Ina Hahn Company | 11/21/1968 | See Source »

...takes, say, two and a half seconds to appraise your situation, decide to use the emergency parachute, and decide which way to put it out (it's a little different for different malfunctions). It takes from a second to a second and a half to reach down against a 125 mile an hour wind to find the ripcord on your stomach and pull it and then punch the bag to make sure the chute is knocked out. It then takes two seconds for the emergency chute to become fully open. At this point you are travelling at the terminal velocity...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: On Jumping Out of Airplanes | 11/21/1968 | See Source »

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