Word: various
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...N.R.A. argument is that if various categories of guns are prohibited, the law-abiding citizen will be left defenseless while the criminal will ignore the law and steal a gun?"as he usually does anyway." In fact, he usually does not and has no need to, when it is so ludicrously easy to purchase one legitimately. A 1965 study showed that nearly 25% of 4,069 mail-order guns shipped by two Chicago firms went to convicted criminals. In New Jersey, one in every five recipients of mail-order firearms has a criminal record. Massachusetts State Police Captain John Collins...
...compromise decision. The commission split the order temporarily into two groups, one progressive and the other traditionalist. The traditionalists, including the 50 nuns who had initially opposed modernization, will be allowed to continue in their schools with Vatican blessings. The 500 progressives, many of whom now work in various Los Angeles ghetto projects, will be given "a reasonable time to experiment, to reflect and to come to a definitive decision concerning their rule of life, to be submitted to the Holy...
...world wars, had to diversify to stay afloat. Over the years, Margarete Steiffs family (she died in 1909) gradually expanded its facilities to manufacture other toys, including kites, wagons, wooden scooters and construction games. It also went into production of valves for pneumatic tires and fiber glass. Today the various family-owned enterprises are small but unmistakably healthy, with sales totaling some $14 million a year...
...first, initiated in 1961, involved "comprehensive planning" in an undeveloped region in Venezuela. The second -- the Metropolitan Boston Studies program, started in 1965--is the rubric under which technical assistance has been given to various Boston agencies which request it. The most frequently cited (and apparently only significant) study produced has been a study of redistricting to alleviate racial imbalance in Boston schools, done for the Massachusetts Department of Education. On less urgent matters, staff members have consulted with other agencies -- the Metropolitan Area Planning Council and BRA, among others...
...administration response was a categorical no. And so the newly-elected student government officials sat down to work out some acceptable compromise. There were long bull sessions with trustees, there were discussions with the various Council members, with President Mary I. Bunting, and consultations with constitutional law expert, Paul Freund. The tone of these discussions was always very quiet. The term "student power" was carefully avoided, and students appealed to the administration for "student responsibility...