Word: normality
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Yale faculty voted last week to allow its members to "suspend normal academic functions" and most have done so. Yale president Kingman Brewster has adopted a policy of cooperation with student requests concerning the Seale trial and the massive demonstrations protesting it which are planned for this Friday...
...With its normal heat-producing systems shut off to conserve electricity, the Odyssey's temperature dropped to nearly 40°. Had it continued to fall, the command module's chemical propellants might have thickened to the point where control thrusters would no longer have been able to perform the critical re-entry maneuvers...
...film, the flight commander dies. Nonetheless, she managed to maintain firm control over her emotions throughout Apollo 13's flight. "I'm used to it now," she said of the danger of space flight. "If I had fears, I couldn't live a normal life. Everyone must have a goal, and this is his." Even before Apollo 13's problems, Lovell had promised his wife and four children that this would be his last flight. "If it weren't," he said, in a reference to other astronauts awaiting space assignment, "I think I would find...
When busing got under way last week, there were no incidents, and attendance was almost normal. Yet resistance, fanned by Kirk's stand, still flickered. Ignoring the fact that some children had been bused up to 40 miles before the court order, many parents claimed it was busing, not integration, that they were resisting. "It's like trucking a bunch of cattle around in those buses," complained Linda Stanky, one of the mothers. Pickets appeared in front of school offices, waving signs: "Give us better minds and less mileage" and "The seat of learning...
...Yale faculty yesterday voted to "suspend normal academic activities" during the current student strike and called on those professors holding classes to "take a tolerant attitude" towards students boycotting classes...