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...most foreign policy" and economic issues, Gallagher explains that Silber's willingness to bring up issues that no other politician would touch attracted him to the Boston University president. Only Silber would bring "some fresh thinking about the most closely-held ideas the Democrats have held since the 1960s. Unfortunately he tended to express them in a blunt, sometimes offensive...
Early in his career as a Harvard administrator, Bok became known for his skillful handling of student protesters. He is frequently credited with having helped calm the campus unrest of the 1960s and early 1970s...
...early and mid-1960s, when men on campus were obsessed with thoughts of the draft and 'Cliffies were awakening to the first moments of the women's movement, soon gave way to a more tumultuous era at the University in the later part of the decade, Bok said...
...Commencement. Fuentes had also been an ambassador to Mexico from France. According to Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics John Womack, Fuentes had at one time been suspected of being a Soviet agent by the CIA and was denied a visa to the U.S. during the 1960s...
...easier to prove a rape case now, but not much. Until the 1960s it was virtually impossible without an eyewitness; judges were often required to instruct jurors that "rape is a charge easily made and hard to defend against; so examine the testimony of this witness with caution." But sometimes a rape was taken very seriously, particularly if it involved a black man attacking a white woman -- a crime for which black men were often executed or lynched...