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...Harvard graduate called this week for the University to apologize publicly for radiation experiments conducted by its researchers in the 1950s and 1960s and to work to codify rights for subjects of medical experiments...
...spycatching may have been stoked by his father, a pipe-smoking member of the CIA counterintelligence staff created and run by the monomaniacal mole hunter James Jesus Angleton. But Carleton had an undistinguished career tracking communist parties and front groups. After he retired from the agency in the 1960s, few remembered much about him beyond his penchant for taking long naps at his desk. Still, the father, now dead, left one important legacy to the CIA: his son, who in 1962 signed on as a trainee...
Curtis Mayfield helped shape rock and soul in the 1960s and '70s with such hits as Superfly. But in 1990 he was paralyzed in an accident. Now a lineup of musicians he influenced, including Rod Stewart and Eric Clapton, have made All Men are Brothers, an album of Mayfield hits. Royalties will go directly to Mayfield...
Full randomization is certainly an unpopular proposal. In the 1960s, the University tried to diversify the populations of the Houses by trying to balance the members of each House in terms of race, background, and even personality type. This approach was finally abandoned in 1974 due to student pressure, and the old system of ordered choice was reinstated...
...soldier in the Fruit of Islam, the Nation's security force and training vehicle for young men, Farrakhan proved an apt disciple. He became head of the temple in Boston and then, after Malcolm X left, temple head in New York City. By the early 1960s he was prominent in the urban black community. White Americans did not notice him until two decades later...