Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ralph Bunche and a former associate professor at the Medical School have been the only Negroes to hold Harvard professorships previous to the appointment of Professor Amos. Bunche served as a professor of Government for a very brief period several years ago before resigning to accept his present position as Undersecretary of the United Nations...
Norman Zinberg, an M.D., provides invaluable historical background for an evaluation of public debate on drugs. His brief history of "Narcotics in the U.S." trims the extravagant claims of both Leary and Alpert and their enemies. The result is a balanced and thoroughly reasonable article...
...Kong last week chanted prayers to the pulsating tick-tock of sticks beating on fish-shaped wooden blocks. Throngs of Chinese paraded through downtown streets carrying huge paper dragons representing the rain god, and the blare of drums, gongs and cymbals exhorted the heavens to send rain. When a brief shower dampened Hong Kong one afternoon, marking the first rainfall in six months, men and women clapped their hands and shouted...
Though her oils sparkle with the French impressionists' gay, effervescent color, she does not share their brief encounter with wind and weather. Instead, she sets down a gossamer tapestry of nature that, though fragile and even frivolous, appears timeless. Sunshine unabashedly pours from the clouds; foliage and fogs spring lively to the breeze that sweeps a meadow...
...fresh items. They passed up the fancy mixes in favor of either baking their own full-fledged homemade cakes or buying readymade cakes, half of which are the dry, traditional and oh-so-British spongecakes. General Mills might have guessed that Betty would not be welcome. After a brief, bitter fling at the British breakfast-food market in 1961, it gave up on packaged cereals...