Word: affections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hamilton replied, in one of his few emotional moments here, to a white professor's question as to what academics can do: 'If your ranks can grow and mine can grow, we can affect a rapprochement and try to end this mess." It is indeed unfortunate that there aren't, as one student said, more Charles V. Hamilton's around. His very presence here is a salient indication of the black leadership void which exists in academia as in politics...
These occasional affairs are incidental to the really important--but delayed and indirect--impact the Center hopes to have on Harvard. Any improvement in the higher levels of historical research, such as the Warren Center is now sponsoring, will inevitably filter down to affect undergraduate studies. Handlin points out, however, that the Center is now making a more deliberate effort to improve the quality of teaching in the field of American history--improving the working conditions of junior faculty members--to make Harvard attractive to young historians...
Financial aid funds for 1968 have also increased, Miss O'Connor said, partly to compensate for the National Merit Corporation's announced cut-backs in Scholarship awards. The increases will not affect the composition of next year's class, she added, although continued increased resources may make financial aid more available to middle-income applicants in the future...
...rights bill into law, Dirksen abruptly appointed himself field marshal of the liberals' forces. Together with a squad of his lawyers known as "Dirksen's Bombers," Ev spent more than two days in negotiations with Senate liberals to fashion a compromise bill. The legislation that emerged would affect an estimated total of 44.6 million of the roughly 65 million housing units in the nation...
...basic, spare facts. But unlike the A.B.A., the Kaufman group is against barring newsmen from pretrial hearings and portions of the trial not heard by the jury. And it opposes the A.B.A. suggestion that newsmen be held in contempt if they willfully publish material designed to affect the outcome of a trial. Such a course, says the Kaufman committee, would be "both unwise and poses serious constitutional problems." A copy of the committee's proposals will be circulated to every federal judge for comment, and in September the full Judicial Conference, which is headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren...