Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This collision was determined later to have been the destroyer's fault.) The repairs cost a quarter of a million dollars. Four months ago, after a year at dockside and a refitting that cost more than $8 million, Melbourne was scraped by a Japanese freighter, crushing a gun platform and demolishing a 40-mm. cannon...
...around for decades to come. Last week a presidential panel recommended that drilling on the Union lease site, which has been halted for four months, be resumed. The panel contended that the best way to stop the leak is to exhaust the oil reservoir un der Union's platform A - an undertaking that could last 20 years or more...
...Party outside the East bloc, which is likely to share power in an Italian government sooner rather than later, stresses its independence of the Soviet way of doing things. Long the lepers of Finnish politics, Communists now participate in the coalition government in Helsinki. By campaigning on an independent platform, Indian Communists have gained power through free elections; they now head coalition Cabinets in the states of Kerala and West Bengal. One reason that the Communists are the fastest-growing political party in Japan is that they refuse to identify with either Peking or Moscow, insisting on the priority...
...resolution, Professor Hughes, two-thirds of the way through his term as chairman of the History Department, rose to defend the sanctity of Faculty control over such matters as curriculum and appointment policy. This was the same H. Stuart Hughes who in 1962 ran for the Senate on a platform sufficiently unpopular to garner about 6 per cent of the vote, and who was still when I came to Harvard, the closest thing with tenure to an active radical. But Professor Hughes and, for that matter, Betsy were only backwaters in the great stream of people supposedly politicized or radicalized...
...Association's platform reflected this public-persuasion strategy. Instead of dealing with specific proposals like ghetto school improvement, it concentrated on broad tactics. It planned to "gain active participation from as broad a segment of the community as possible," and to "provide mechanisms for citizens and business leaders to work in the best interests of the schools...