Word: winter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weary wife sleep there. Three of their children fill the floor space of the single room. Everyone else sleeps outside. Sleeping outside--usually under the house--can occasionally be pleasant, especially during the hot summer nights. Then the only discomforts are the rats and insects. But during the winter it's hard to find enough clothing to keep the cold out. Each winter since 1963 someone in the family has died under the house on a cold night...
...courses actually have a tenuous hold on life. They were renewed, and for one year only, by a rare split vote of the Committee on General Education last winter. Edward T. Wilcox, director of General Education, says that house courses will be reviewed again this year, and probably brought before the full Faculty sometime next spring...
...Radcliffe and to students in other houses, Wilcox says there has been no more than "token integration." About 80 per cent of the Harvard students in most of the courses have been from the house in which it is being offered. One faculty member even suggested during last winter's debates that such discrimination might be legally actionable...
...side. McCarthy forces under the leadership of Dartmouth instructor David C. Hoeh, a congressional candidate, won about forty-five per cent of party precincts in an early September primary election. They are very close to electing a McCarthyite party chairman. Where most of Gene's organization last winter were out-of-state college students, the liberals have now developed native leadership in town after town. The Nixon landslide is expected to defeat Hoeh and most other major Democratic candidates; the McCarthy leadership just hopes to run ahead of other party candidates to prove the Granite State's dove power once...
...real problems we're confronted with is a feeling by a large number of students that something is wrong with U.C.L.A. since we haven't had any riots." One reason for the calm is the tripartite University Policies Commission that Young drew up last winter. Composed of students, teachers and administrators, the commission advises on the university's major policy decisions before they are enacted. Young comments that many student committees "actually tend to be a little conservative, especially where fiscal policy is concerned...