Word: vacuumers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Making SFAC responsible to the Faculty has one great merit according to Hoffmann: "It takes us out of the vacuum. We know now who we're talking to." Nonetheless Tuesday's events are a blow to SFAC. The Council's first major recommendation has been rejected and if the issues raised by the Dow demonstration are muddled by a new demonstration next week, SFAC's first five meetings will seem dreadfully futile. And there is the further fear that Pusey's decision makes recommendations of the student-dominated Council meaningless unless they are approved by the Faculty...
London has no Off Broadway; the once adventurous Royal Court Theater, since the death of Artistic Director George Devine, has been taken over by a feeble clique of conventionally minor playwrights and directors. In this vacuum, the tiny semisuburban, underbudgeted Hampstead Theater Club has attracted critical notice with its recent productions of two stimulatingly offbeat dramas: Tennessee Williams' Two Character Play (TIME, Dec. 22), and its currently featured Bakke's Night of Fame by Playwright John McGrath. In the latter, the action takes place in the death cell of a U.S. prison, where Bakke, awaiting electrocution at midnight...
...also seized the political initiative with the successful series of elections last year that culminated in the installation of Nguyen Van Thieu as civilian President under a new constitution. Increasingly, the bulk of the war was being fought on South Viet Nam's peripheries, leaving a virtual vacuum in the countryside that allied pacification efforts were moving to fill. A dramatic demonstration of Communist power and prowess was required. To Giap, the countryside general offensive seemed tailormade for the task...
...Volunteers express their beliefs in domestic media about contemporary issues? Yes, witness Vietnam, Will the Peace Corps become a homogeneous group? Only if the heterogeneous abdicate in favor of the puritan vacuum of abstention...
...flight through the atmosphere by a nose cone and a cone-shaped adapter. After the second stage had been inserted into orbit, the nose cone was jettisoned and the adapter's four panels slowly opened like the petals of a flower, exposing LM to its natural environment: the vacuum of space, in which it can fly as efficiently as a streamlined rocket. Then, on command from LM's on-board computer, the craft briefly fired its 100-lb.-thrust attitude-control rockets, detaching itself from the adapter base and settling into its own orbit...