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After the smoke of the 1960s cleared, after Jack and Bobby were buried and Ted drove his presidential prospects off the bridge at Chappaquiddick, the rest of the nation looked reflexively to the next generation of Kennedys to see which of them would end up on campaign posters. A lot of them had the same Kennedy twinkle, the same robust manner that had helped make their elders the stuff of legend. Many had the family's customary moral earnestness and alertness to any instance of social justice denied. But of 29 cousins, only four have so far gone...
...idea for a Riverkeeper sprang from the hard head of Bob Boyle, a writer at SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and a sportfisherman who in the 1960s fought for clean waters and founded the Hudson River Fishermen's Association--at the time an unlikely alliance of commercial interests and environmentalists. American environmental law came into its own in 1980, when the Con Edison power company, after a battle with the fishermen, dropped its plan to build a huge facility on Storm King Mountain near the Hudson that was designed to store water for hydroelectric-power generation but would also have damaged a major...
...taught English at the College for forty years, and also served as chair of the Department of English during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Afterwards, he served as the chair of the Department of History and Literature...
...book I'm reading now is Jim Bouton's "Ball Four," a first-hand account of Major League Baseball in the late 1960s. It was required reading for History 1653, "Baseball and American Society." It was actually a book I enjoyed reading for class, but I just didn't get the chance to finish it because the books kept coming, even though I wasn't ready for them...
Dreben was also an active member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, serving as the body's parliamentarian during the tumultuous 1960s, when he argued for open debate between students and Faculty members over contentious issues like draft deferment and the 1969 student strike...