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...late 1960s and early 1970s, many civil rights activists thought that their jobs were done. Having crushed the system of segregation, they believed that equality and racial prejudice would soon follow. Unfortunately, proponents of prejudice have moved into academia, as their forbears did in the late 19th century, and are leading the way towards re-establishing separate and unequal societies through the legislative branch of the state and federal governments. --Joshua Bloodworth...
...Harvard Square were filled with one-of-a-kind small businesses, that would be one thing. But when it looks like a smaller, outdoor version of the CambridgeSide Galleria mall, we see no reason why it should not allow more 24-hour stores. Gifford said that in the 1960s and '70s, "there were a lot of 24-hour places and they were a nightmare." Maybe that was because she and the other members of the Defense Fund were having bad dreams in their "residential areas." After all, they're not the ones who have to stay up all night, hungry...
...1960s and 1970s, those movements enlisted the energies of some of that generation's finest young whites, eager to express their altruistic impulses, to live and, if necessary, to die for noble ends. But from the late '60s on, the role of white liberals was circumscribed by the rise of black nationalists, who suspected that Northern whites were as eager to put their own virtue on display as to seek self-determination for Southern blacks. After all, the Shaw monument portrays the young colonel with his patrician features, astride his prancing steed, while his swarthy soldiers follow obediently...
This property has Bahcall and other physicists speaking in superlatives about S.N.O., because it will allow the device to solve one of the enduring mysteries of astrophysics. Known as the solar neutrino problem, it was discovered back in the 1960s. According to calculations originally made by Bahcall, the nuclear fusion reactions at the sun's core should be generating about 200 trillion trillion trillion electron neutrinos every second. But when physicists set out to find them, they were shocked to see evidence of only about a third that number. Among the possible explanations: perhaps scientists didn't understand nuclear physics...
...resigned in June 1969 and apparently gave up math, according to the department chair from the late 1960s...