Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Grand Prix of Monaco for Formula 1 racing cars, at Monte Carlo, and the Masters Surfing championships, at Redondo Beach, Calif...
Almost 1000 students signed a petition yesterday demanding a college-wide referendum on Harvard's plan to send grade rankings to local draft boards...
...petition, presently circulating throughout the University asks the Harvard administration to refrain from supplying information on class rank, either directly to draft boards or to students themselves, until a referendum can be held to determine undergraduate opinion on the question. The petition is sensibly worded and deserves wide-spread support...
...situation is certainly no better so far this year. Just last week Irish electrical workers walked out, causing wide spread shutdowns on everything from telephones to electrically operated hospital suction pumps (one poor chap suffered a long interruption in a major operation-being Irish, he survived). At the same time, members of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association were striking and picketing government buildings in Dublin...
Other people maintain that there simply never was enough support to pass a home rule bill in the House. Certainly it must have been apparent to those who voted for the Sisk version that the wide divergence between it and the Senate bill would preclude final passage of any bill at all during that session of Congress...