Word: 1960s
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...least publicized achievements of the computer revolution: a huge, arching communications network connecting 60,000 computers by high-speed data links and ordinary telephone lines. Developed by the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency in the late 1960s, Arpanet, as the information grid is called, has carried everything from unclassified military data to electronic love notes sent from one lonely researcher to another. But last week it became the conduit for something much more dramatic: one of the most sophisticated and infectious computer viruses the world has yet seen...
...proposal, formally released by the students' and masters' Committee on House Life (COHL), marks a major break from policies in place since the late 1960s which emphasize student choice in selecting houses...
House masters today will propose the most significant changes to the freshman lottery since the late 1960s, masters and administrators said late last week...
...last major change to the house assignmentsystem at Harvard occurred in the late 1960s whena completely random assignment system was replacedby the current one of lottery and choice...
Even earlier, from the house system's foundingin the 1930s until the random system adapted inthe early 1960s, masters personally selected housemembers...