Word: women
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Students agitated noisily for parietal increases this year, and the Faculty almost doubled the number of hours during which women are allowed in dormitories, but the two actions were six months out of phase. By the time the Committee on Houses approved a new set of hours, most students had forgotten parietals (as an issue at least). But for a few brief shining weeks last fall it was the burning question for campus activists...
...faulty. For one thing, the new hours won't free the Committee on Houses from the issue. Some students are sure to use the new hours next fall as a foot-in-the-door to agitate for getting rid of parietals altogether, or the more realistic goal of allowing women to eat at all lunches and dinners...
Even more than most young middle-class Americans, these young men and women [radicals], while they had "done the reading," were not psychologically prepared for a personal and concrete confrontation with injustice, social repression and discrimination...
...along the tracks, Colonia, family held up a bedsheet with the words "We'll miss you Bobby" scratched upon it. In Menuchen, an elderly Negre fell on his knees touching the ground with his forehead and stretched out his arms, hat in hand, toward the train. Everywhere, men and women pressed their fists to their mouths, their faces hard with grief...
...Middle Ages, women who wanted a boy baby were advised to avoid copulation during the dark of the moon and (while an abbot prayed) to drink wine, mixed by an alchemist, with lion's blood. As often as not, they gave birth to girls. And despite scientists' growing understanding of genetics, modern parents are unable to do any better in choosing the sex of their offspring. But help may be on the way. Two English scientists have devised a technique for controlling the sex of rabbits. Their method, the first to achieve 100% accuracy with any mammal...