Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Waste Without Haste. In Lockport, N.Y., the city council spent seven hours at its first 1960 meeting discussing ways to speed up meetings, arrived at no firm conclusion...
...empty Senate chamber shambled hulking, crag-faced Paul H. (for Howard) Douglas of Illinois, zestfully booming out the long jargon phrases of higher economics. White crew-cut hair bristling, Democrat Douglas last week was declaiming on an emerging issue in 1960 politicking: the state of the U.S. economy after seven years of Republican stewardship. Prompting his performance was his Joint Economic Committee's report on a year-long study of U.S. employment, growth and price levels...
When even that failed to buy the insurgents off, Delouvrier caved in emotionally. He had had only seven hours' sleep in five days. In a speech that was sometimes eloquent but more often rang like a wild cry of panic in the night ("I myself have been struck by paralysis, by anguish and by torment like all of you"), Delouvrier announced that, General de Gaulle having taught him how to decide, he and Challe had decided to leave Algiers and go to a command post in the country. He called upon Algeria's 9,000,000 Moslems...
Edward M. Purcell, Noble prize winner in physics, will be the first Gerhard Gade University Professor, increasing the ranks of university professors to seven. Harry T. Levin '33 will assume on July 1 the Irving Babbitt Professorship of Comparative Literature, a new chair named after the literary critic and French professor who taught Levin while at College...
...this and opposed that, and measured out doses of censure and praise. Through all, and taken all in all, we have felt that Harvard College is just a little better than any other college, that the good works of President Pusey and his young bespectacled Dean for the past seven years have been generally commendable. Dr. Pusey was far less a creature of the flaccid fifties than President Eisenhower, of our political capital; one must look abroad to find a match for the scope and imagination of the Program for Harvard College, since the "Great Leap Forward" is its only...