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...Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges were in the midst of the political upheavals of the 1960s when Gutmann and her classmates arrived on campus...
Grade inflation is not particular to Harvard, Mansfield said. He traces the beginning roots of the phenomenon to as early as the late 1960s...
...rate of 2 to 1. Not long afterward, J. Tom Morgan, the local district attorney, asked to meet him at the county courthouse. Morgan had been elected 10 years earlier on promises to rid the jail of corruption. The county has a long history, dating to the 1960s, of sheriffs being accused of fraud, bribery or cronyism. Now, he confided to Derwin, his office was targeting Dorsey...
...abstraction, of course, some of which (most famously, Abstract Expressionism) is as lush as Frederic Church's skies or Marilyn Monroe's cleavage. But enough of it to make up a distinct subspecies of American abstraction, the big effusion of which came to be known, in the 1960s, as Minimal...
DIED. JOHN SCHMITZ, 70, fiery former Orange County Congressman who led Southern California's right wing in the 1960s and '70s; of cancer; in Washington. In 1972 Schmitz replaced George Wallace when the presidential candidate was paralyzed by a would-be assassin. His political career effectively ended in 1982 when it was revealed that he had a pregnant mistress, a former student with whom he had already had a son. And there was further scandal. In 1997 his teacher-daughter Mary Kay LeTourneau, 35, was convicted of having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old student...