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Need--blind admissions-Harvard's policy of evaluating applicants without regard for their ability to pay tuition-emerged as the third major aid development in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Fitzsimmons says...
Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox '59 says that although the University began using tuition revenue for financial aid in the 1950s, it was not until the 1960s and 1970s that aid was "officially uncoupled from academic performance...
...break into the black. They benefit from lower overhead costs and do not pay traditional compensation to stations. Moreover, they are striving to establish distinctive profiles in the crowded marketplace. UPN sees itself as a smarter throwback to the mass-audience network approach of the 1960s and '70s (among its newest shows: an updated version of The Love Boat), while the WB, the more successful of the two, has targeted teenage viewers with such younger, hipper shows as Dawson's Creek and Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
That's the official story. Perhaps more to the point is that back in the 1960s, NASA was a place for heroes. Every time men rocketed into space, they took a greater risk than on their previous flight, reached for a more audacious and dangerous goal--and almost always succeeded. But after the four extraordinary years between 1968 and 1972, when the U.S. was sending crews to the moon, the agency retreated to the familiar backwaters of near Earth orbit. Aside from a few high notes like the Hubble-telescope repair mission and the horror of the Challenger explosion, human...
...when the people at NASA started to put the program back together, they shifted its appeal from the heroism of individuals to scientific cleverness--without success. Only last year's Pathfinder probe to Mars revived some of the keen attention people gave the space effort in the early 1960s. However entertaining it was to watch the cute little robot strut its stuff, it would always be the person in space who enthralled the public heart. All the old images that came back with Alan Shepard's death a few weeks ago--the splashdown, the A-O.K.s, the Michelin tire...