Word: waves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, under the pressure of still another wave of disturbances, the new president, Robert R. Smith, former dean at S.F. State, had to close the college down completely. The new demonstrations by B.S.U. members and the local chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society were stirred up by the suspension of George Murray, 22, a part-time teacher and graduate student who is also minister of education for the Black Panthers. All 800 blacks at S.F. State are counted as members by the B.S.U., whether the students concerned agree or not. And the disruptive B.S.U. tactics, designed...
Computers are finding unlimited opportunity in the arts. Music, for instance. The electric wave which goes from a musical instrument or a recording into the speaker of a sound system can be represented with total accuracy as a sequence of numbers. And since computers can do anything with numbers, they can in principle duplicate not just any sound that the human ear can hear but any sound that can be created. They do it by emitting 20,000 three-digit numbers a second--something no human could ever do--and turning them into an electric wave that can activate...
This fall, student dissidents were expected to create more chaos on more campuses than ever. But they have failed to disrupt the University of California at Berkeley, where the wave of rebellion began four years ago. Last week a call for a campus-wide strike was heeded by less than 20% of Berkeley's 28,000 students, even though the activists had an issue far more provocative than anything enjoyed by Mario Savio and his 1964 Free Speech Movement...
...dealing with its root causes. Mr. Nixon feels that the relationship between poverty and crime is exaggerated, that "if the conviction rate were doubled in this country, it would do more to eliminate crime than a quadrapuling of the funds of any governmental war on poverty"; and that "the wave of lawlessness is due to the example of intellectuals and the growing disrespect of the young." Moreover, Mr. Nixon has used the Supreme Court and the Attorney General as scapegoats...
...think that you should be deceived by the figures on deserters being issued by the Defense Department ... There are not dozens, but hundreds or thousands," Cox said, calling the desertion movement "a tidal wave...