Word: within
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spartan's explosion. Within an area of a few miles, the X rays would penetrate the incoming warhead's heat shield, wreck its circuitry and defuse its trigger mechanism...
...Communist agent. Inevitably, in the conspiratorial atmosphere of Vietnamese politics, there were those who preferred to believe that the assassination attempt had been a dark and sinister plot hatched against Huong by foes inside the government. The Viet Cong's publicists did not offer any enlightenment, since dissension within the government is, for them, the next best thing to outright assassination...
...summed up by a sign in the Harvard Coop that sternly warns people not to go barefoot on the escalator (it can be a painful way to pare the toenails). For many undergraduates, alienation is more than a matter of drugs, dirty clothes and long hair. Rather than live within the gilded confines of Harvard's residential houses along the Charles River, a few hundred students have moved into nearby slum tenements like the one on University Road where Jane Britton, a 23-year-old graduate anthropology student at Harvard, was murdered in January. The embarrassed slum landlord turned...
Threats from Within. An ad hoc faculty committee promptly took a half-page ad in the Crimson to remind the administration that "any intrusion upon the classroom or any effort to coerce the instructor is an infringement upon the academic rights both of the teacher and of the students who wish to take the course." The list of 108 senior Harvard professors who signed the petition read like a Who's Who of Cambridge intelligentsia, embracing figures from the political right, left and center, and including Samuel Beer, Paul Buck, Oscar Handlin, George Kistiakowsky and Seymour Lipset...
Certainly, it is a serious matter when a department chairman tells one of his Faculty members that he cannot teach a course anymore without an adequate explanation for such a decision. The freedom of Faculty members to teach what they want within Faculty regulations is obviously an important principle for any university to preserve...