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Among his greatest achievements, they said, have been restoring stability after the tumultuous 1960s; creating the Kennedy School of Government; increasing Harvard's emphasis on undergraduate education and teaching; and critically examining various aspects of the University in his annual reports...
Appointed as a young leader who could mend a campus torn by 1960s student activism, President Derek C. Bok has presided over two decades marked by massive financial growth, curriculum reform, and its own fair share of internal controversies...
Though his city was already so jittery that many openly speculated about the possibility of 1960s-style racial rioting, Dinkins had waited until May 11 to deliver what he called a "major, major" appeal for calm. Said he: "I oppose all bigotry against anyone, anywhere. I abhor it. I denounce it, and I'll do anything -- anything right and anything effective -- to prevent it." Speaking for many blacks and whites, the Rev. Calvin Butts, pastor of Harlem's % Abyssinian Baptist Church, welcomed Dinkins' appeal but noted that it "should have been delivered months...
...officials say the spy ring was part of a major espionage program run against foreign business executives since the late 1960s by Service 7 of French intelligence. Besides infiltrating American companies, the operation routinely intercepts electronic messages sent by foreign firms. "There's no question that they have been spying on IBM's transatlantic communications and handing the information to Bull for years," charges Robert Courtney, a former IBM security official who advises companies on counterespionage techniques...
...they were pretty good at it, too. When my grandfather quit smoking in the mid-1960s, he did so not for health reasons, but because he suddenly realized how much money he would save by breaking the habit...