Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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When Leland Hayward and his third wife, Slim, were divorced last May, part of the settlement involved territorial rights in New York nightclubs, to avoid embarrassing encounters. Hayward, for example, was assigned one side of El Morocco, while Slim got the other side and the Champagne Room, too. Very few New Yorkers consider their nightclubs that important, but for a month now they have been hearing the din of a limited war over a 20-year-old police ordinance that requires nightclub employees-from entertainers to hat-check girls-to carry police identity cards. A Citizens' Emergency Committee...
...hands of undergraduate organizations. An expanded Committee of five faculty members and four undergraduates (three from the HDC) will now put out a list of acceptable plays and choose directors for them from a list of acceptable directors--prepared, of course, by the Committee. This was done to avoid the inefficiency and wasted effort which have, since the construction of the Loeb Drama Center, hampered the selection of plays. The unfortunate effect of this new change--designed to reform genuine abuses--is to give the Committee total control of organized undergraduate drama...
...majority of students who took Sophomore Standing, the flexibility of the program and the chance to avoid repetition of work done in school were the greatest attractions. About four out of five students said they would have objected to a requirement that they take three lower level General Education courses rather than the single one required of them. Many are still undecided whether they will spend three or four years at the College...
...Thin Line. Today some 1,500 young Filipinos work for PACD. The requirements are stiff: out of 100 to apply, only eight pass the written exam, and of these only four, on the average, are selected. To avoid a handout psychology, Binamira gets villagers to contribute up to half the cost of each project, in goods or services. Result: the actual cash spent goes a long way. One village built its own copra-drying plant, used part of the profit to add two classrooms to the local school...
Oliver R. Tambo, a leader of the exiled South African United Front, urged the U.S. to avoid viewing all foreign policy questions in the light of the Cold War. Tambo felt the tendency of both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to view the Congo situation in the light of their mutual conflict had weakened the U.N.'s position there...