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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Life magazine and fine for geological work on the moon, but it is too small to provide enough detail for improved mapping. Three NASA advisory groups have recommended that a larger, aerial mapping camera with a 9-inch square negative be adopted at a cost of only a few thousand dollars more, but the agency appears satisfied with what one cartographer called "snapshots taken out the window like a tourist." or at least it has not budgeted additional funds for better mapping gear...
...Kwon Do is the most popular martial art in the United States, Kim raid. Because of the rate of city crime and the lack of suitable physcical fitness opportunities for women. Ten thousand women took it up last year...
...Coop is ever going to change, now is its chance. To approve any amendment affecting the relationship between management and membership at least 25 per cent of the members must vote. Last fall about a thousand members expressed interest in changing the Coop: this fall at least fifteen thousand have to react. The management plans to publicize the changes widely and to allow voting by mail. Only about 30 per cent of Harvard's alumni ever bother to vote for the Board of Overseers...
...attack. One of the few non-Communist casualties reported was that of an American CIA agent who was presumably acting as an adviser. Under the terms of the 1962 Geneva treaty, the presence of any armed man in Laos, except for the Laotians, is illegal. Even so, several thousand Thai troops have been operating more or less secretly in Laos for over a year. They have gone unnoticed because of their ethnic similarities to the Laotian people, and because they wear Royal Laotian uniforms. There are also an estimated 40,000 North Vietnamese in Laos, and perhaps 1,000 Americans...
...person a firearm as hereinafter defined, loaded or unloaded, in any building or on the grounds of any college or university without the written authorization of the board or officer in charge of said college or university shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year or both. For the purpose of this paragraph "firearm" shall mean any pistol, revolver, rifle or smoothbore arm from which a shot, bullet or pellet can be discharged by whatever means...