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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...September 1975. I confidently expect every level of school in Boston to be involved in a court-ordered desegregation plan," NAACP leader Tom Atkins told eight students in Burr Hall...

Author: By Vivian Cheng, | Title: Atkins Sees Need for Troops To Enforce Busing This Fall | 2/28/1975 | See Source »

...Richmond Times-Dispatch, came to the defense of the founding fathers in an outspoken Charter Day address at Virginia's venerable College of William and Mary. He sharply assailed Fawn Brodie, author of Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate History, and Gore Vidal, who wrote the historical novel Burr, for pretending to sound scholarship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Defending the Founders | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

...there are still a few bugs left from the Bennett era and it's doubtful they will ever be worked out. At least one member of the Harvard Corporation (Senior Fellow Francis H. Burr '35) is a director on one of the new firms. In the financial world especially, it is difficult to find something that does not involve Burr or other members of Harvard's Governing Boards...

Author: By H. JEFFREY Leonard, | Title: Financial Lineup Is Complete | 1/17/1975 | See Source »

...level four-member committee--made up of Bok, Putnam, Francis H. Burr '35, senior fellow of the Corporation, and F. Stanton Deland '36, president of the board of Overseers--will choose Nickerson's successor, probably by late spring...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: The Torch Is Passing Again | 1/17/1975 | See Source »

...clock most mornings and shuttles between there, the Hypertension Center and his laboratory until hunger, exhaustion or Jean Sealey-a biochemist and his bride of four months-forces him to stop. "We haven't even had a honeymoon yet," complains Jean in a soft burr that attests to her origins in Glasgow, Scotland. "The day after we were married we went off to a hypertension meeting in Milan." But Laragh, who has two sons by a previous marriage that ended in divorce, does find time to relax. His golf game is good enough (in the low 80s) to allow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONQUERING THE QUIET KILLER | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

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