Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Attempts to pass stronger legislation have been thwarted in the past by strong pressure from young people who are ubiquitous in the state. In the wake of the recent murders, however, Massachusetts Attorney General Robert Quinn is optimistic that the current anti-hitchhiking mood will insure legislative passage of the bill that he has proposed calling for the suspension of the registration of any auto picking up a hitchhiker in a "non-emergency" situation...
...contract-signing pens at the ready. At the time, the three top record companies were RCA, Capitol and Columbia. Joe Smith of Warner had pre-empted the pack by signing Jimi Hendrix before the festival. But the most enterprising of all was Columbia's Clive Davis, who in the wake of the festival signed Janis Joplin; Blood, Sweat and Tears; Santana; and Chicago. To their eventual sorrow, RCA and Capitol were still viewing such affairs?indeed, all of rock?as something of a passing...
Ford served as dean from 1962 to 1969, resigning in the wake of the 1969 University Hall occupation and bust. Bok said Ford is not a candidate for permanent dean, although he would not rule out Brooks...
Becoming President in the wake of the Kennedy assassination, Johnson felt that his great mission was to unite the nation. He forever quoted Isaiah: "Come now, let us reason together." TIME'S White House correspondent, who was in Dallas, says that Johnson "pursued his goal with a single-mind-edness and skill that no other man in high office could have mustered. He somehow reached out and comprehended that incredible problem, surrounded it and mastered all the details. In the short view, at least, he produced a near miracle in a storm center of anguish...
...rang. It was a friend at Radcliffe looking for her own roommate; she was hysterical, but did manage to say that the United States and Russia were at war. And she was serious, too. My roommates said okay, she hung up, and they sat around calmly discussing whether to wake me and tell me that the world was about to be enveloped in a nuclear holocaust. She had sounded convinced, they reasoned, so why should they doubt that it's true? Such was our state of mind that spring. My roommates finally decided to wake...