Word: careers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early career, of course, was an impressive one: his legislative efforts helped bring the nation civil rights bills, the Peace Corps, Food for Peace, better social security, a nuclear test ban treaty and improved health care, to mention only a few achievements. Humphrey was the quintessential New Deal liberal and that was important during these years, the years when the government recognized its obligation to expand its responsiveness to human needs. Someone had to push the Senate in new directions, fight the good fight--and more often than not it was Humphrey, a "giver" in the fullest sense, who took...
...some ways, those who take a hard-line on Humphrey's career are persuasive. His position on Vietnam was no small blot on an otherwise brilliant record--to the contrary, attitudes on the war must be considered central in the assessment of anyone who held high office during those years. Humphrey may not have been an architect of the war policy but in playing the role of supporter he implicated himself in some of its ugliest facets: fudging reports of fact-finding trips, referring to "our finest hour," condoning the clubbings in the streets of Chicago...
...game, if anything else, marked a couple of firsts for Harvard coach Billy Cleary. This was the first time he has ever lost to Northeastern (He carried a ten-game streak into last night's clash), and likewise, the first time in his career he's probably welcomed Harvard's strange tradition of post-vacation exams...
...career at Harvard has been off and on--off and on the team, that is. He was a starter on the freshman team three years ago. As a sophomore, he made the trip to South Carolina, but resigned from the team soon after its return to Cambridge...
...senior, spent this fall in Atlanta studying at Morehouse College while the Crimson hoopsters were toiling away at the IAB. Cox's Harvard basketball career had apparently ended last year when he resigned from the team, but after talking with Harvard's new coach Frank McLaughlin this fall on the phone Cox spent his spare time playing basketball in Atlanta...