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Until the mid-1960s, East Cambridge was sustained by an abundance of factory jobs that pumped millions of dollars into the local economy, says Erika S. Bruner, assistant director of the Cambridge Historical Commission...
When the Civil Rights movement dismantled legal segregation in the 1960s, it seems unlikely that their goal was the new discrimination that is now enshrined in the law thirty Years later. We believe that affirmative action as a legal institution is fundamentally unfair and does little to address the true racial inequities in our society...
Sheehan's Irish past is obvious; from a large selection of old Irish texts to traditional heartshped claddaug rings in the showcases, the store is steeped in Gaelic tradition. But the store's owners broadened their base in the 1960s and now sell to all Christian denominations, not just Catholics...
...1960s and early '70s, the first generation of hackers emerged in university computer-science departments. They transformed mainframes into virtual personal computers, using a technique called time sharing that provided widespread access to computers. Then in the late '70s, the second generation invented and manufactured the personal computer. These nonacademic hackers were hard-core counterculture types -- like Steve Jobs, a Beatle- haired hippie who had dropped out of Reed College, and Steve Wozniak, a Hewlett-Packard engineer. Before their success with Apple, both Steves developed and sold ``blue boxes,'' outlaw devices for making free telephone calls. Their contemporary and early...
...looking like a nearly step-by-step rip-off of "True Believer," where James Woods plays a lawyer trying to free a man who has spent eight years in Ossining ('Sing Sing') for a murder he didn't commit. In "Just Cause," James Woods' Eddie Dodd, a washed-up, 1960s hippie lawyer is replaced by Sean Connery's Paul Armstrong, a lawyer-turned-Harvard professor. Neither of the men has tried a murder case in a number of years, both are reluctant to take...