Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stanford University, 294 protesters are arrested during a demonstration outside the student union building; in Santa Cruz, 401 University of California students are charged with trespassing; administration buildings at the University of Oregon and Portland State University are occupied by protesters; a silent demonstration is held by a group of 100 at Wesleyan University. It is all eerily reminiscent of the Viet Nam War days, but the protests involve a new generation and a different issue: college ownership of stock in U.S. corporations that operate in ?or have dealings with?South Africa...
...building his engine, it might have been as big as a football field, would have been powered by steam, and would have sounded as noisy as a boiler factory. Yet the same principles underlying the clangorous computations it would have made can be found in today's silent electronic wiz ards, all of which contain five basic sections...
THIS POEM, WRITTEN by a Nicaraguan woman named Christian Santos de Praslin, recently appeared in a Managua newspaper. Its publication dramatizes the fact that revolution in Nicaragua, a country whose people have long been silent under the oppressive dictatorship of President Anastasio Somoza, is alive and flourishing. Freedom of the press is a relatively new development in this Central American nation of 2.5 million--opposition to the 42-year-old Somoza dynasty has only surfaced in print within the last year, in the wake of President Carter's proclamations about human rights...
...smell of neatsfoot Oil in the air and the sound of Loyal Park saying "You're all in the picture" can only mean that baseball season is just around the corner. With this in mind, belated congratulations to Paul Halas, Harvard's answer to the strong, silent type. Paul will captain the 1978 edition of the Crimson nine...
While researching their book, Wife Beating: The Silent Crisis, co-authors Roger Langley and Richard C. Levy discovered that husbands get banged around too. In fact, while the pair estimates that there are 28 million battered wives in the country, they put the figure for battered husbands at 12 million. A beaten husband has some extra problems, says Levy. "Should he take the abuse or fight back? Whether he is a sniveling mouse or a Neanderthal brute, society will reject...