Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...achievements, the school is in a fight for survival, and this week's commencement could be the last. The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago plans to withdraw its subsidy this month. The archdiocese kept Providence-St. Mel going during a period of wrenching change in the late '60s and early '70s, when the school went from 50% white to all black, and enrollment (now 340) fell by two-thirds. More students are applying now, but the church says it cannot continue its $150,000 annual subsidy, which covers a third of the school's budget (the rest comes from tuition...
Sometimes it's the police who are at fault, he admits. In the early '70s, when clashes between demonstrators and police were at their height, Richardson saw a Cambridge police car trying to run over a student demonstrator on the grass between Winthrop and Kirkland Houses. The student fled into Winthrop with the cop in hot pursuit. Richardson pointed the officer in the wrong direction...
...Peabody Terrace, who recounted horrors about the cockroaches, the garbage and heating systems in that housing facility. A number of deans also had something to say about real estate; there wasn't enough of it for Harvard professors to rent, or buy, in Cambridge. The situation in the early '70s was ironic. Harvard could barely find enough residents to occupy Peabody Terrace, but at the same time, there were many people who wanted to live in Cambridge, but could not find the space. Adding to the problem's complexity is the fact that while the University manages the graduate student...
...revised and expanded in order to keep pace with the weight of new knowledge; graduate education came into its own; faculty positions increased and faculty salaries recovered from the depressed level they had remained at during the first half of the 20th century. From the vantage point of the '70s, the years 1945-1970 seem to be a halcyon period. Institutions of higher education assumed a more important role in American soc iety, acquiring new prestige along with increased responsibilities...
Thevis, with an empire of pornographic bookstores (perhaps 90% of those in the nation in the early '70s) and movie theaters, was one of Atlanta's best-known would-be big spenders. But his attempts at cleansing, if not raising his profile through philanthropy-he offered his mansion to the city for use as a school, his money to the symphony-were thwarted. Still refusing to be satisfied as the prince of pornography, Thevis bought one of the finest recording studios in the South and tried his touch out on Hollywood's biggest pinball machine-the movie...