Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week. Down the wide, snowy boulevard poured thousands of students singing the Internationale and screaming curses of protest against the U.S. air raids on North Viet Nam. Tipped off in advance, the embassy had called on the authorities for protection. As a result, 600 police were on the scene. But the cops did little to stop the mob from bursting through the cordon, vaulting a metal barrier, and scrambling over an improvised rampart of 30 snowplows...
Plans call for the building of a four-obstacle ring made up of a high metal cyclone fence, a 6-ft.-deep ditch, a highway for the exclusive use of Red patrols, and a sanitary strip some 500 yds. wide sprinkled with police watchtowers. Where buildings and trees now stand, pink hollyhocks will grow-not so much to beautify the austere scene as to provide the Communist sharpshooters with a clear line of fire...
...However intransigent," concludes Marshall, "the men of Peking are not reckless. They look for the soft touches and hit only when opportunity yawns wide. For these reasons, all the talk about blundering into another Korea-type war in Southeast Asia seems to me as idle as is the fear behind it. Palpable risks and dangers are present in such number that if those who make policy recoil from chimeras, they will forfeit what chance remains to help South Viet Nam save herself...
...paper's eight-column page has been reduced to five, its 7½-point type enlarged to nine point. Black column rules have been removed, leaving wide swatches of white space. A pair of capsule news columns have been added. "Focus," appearing daily in the left-hand column of the front page, will summarize trends in politics, business, sports, science and the arts; "The News-Briefly," which appears on page 2, will capsule the day's events. With the addition of twelve reporters and some editorial shifts, Canham expects staffers to be freer than ever to write stories...
Ellis also suggested that the HUC appoint a committee to try to get parietals hours extended to Saturday nights of football weekends and that more dofinite regulations be set up for college-wide elections...