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...other urban areas across the country, changing neighborhood patterns led to some racial tensions in Riverside during the 1960s...
...classic economic warfare, only from the top down instead of from the bottom up. American politics can be seen-crudely, perhaps deplorably, but not inaccurately-as a battle between the poor and the rich for the allegiance of the middle class. Call it empathy vs. aspiration. In the 1960s the middle class joined hands with the poor. Since 1980 it has seen its class interest as lying more with the rich...
Even more remarkable is Poland's renewed interest in Judaism, despite the fact that very few Jews still live there. Only 300,000 Polish Jews out of a prewar population of 3.5 million survived the Holocaust, and nearly all of those emigrated in the 1960s under pressure from the communist government. Barely 5,000 remain. Yet kosher food, Yiddish theater and Jewish-history studies are becoming more popular...
Last year, then-Provost Jerry R. Green named an ad hoc committee to review human subject research at the University. The decision to establish the committee followed revelations that Harvard scientists in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s had participated in experiments in which human subjects were unknowingly subjected to radiation...
...undergraduate, Corbett was chair of the Kirkland House Committee and a strong supporter of Harvard's own ROTC program. In the 1960s, Corbett says, he helped assemble counter-protest groups to "block various radical students" from protesting...