Word: cents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Turning over present Harvard housing to the community would only force more students and faculty to live off-campus and would thus increase housing shortages in the City. (A resolution had asked Harvard and M.I.T. to turn over 25 per cent of their housing to the Leased Housing Program--a project to provide low-rent housing to senior citizens...
News of the 72 per cent reduction in the international student exchange program, which broke yesterday in the New York Times, did not come as a shock to Fox, however, who cited the growing opposition in Congress to such projects...
Working from statistics that showed that 97 per cent of Alabama's black children had "chosen" to stay in black schools, and quoting a Supreme Court ruling that invalidated Freedom of Choice when it didn't "speedily end the dual school system," the Justice Department asked for more radical measures. Specifically, it wanted the court to close many black schools and begin bussing and zoning plans to achieve racial balance in the schools. And it wanted all of this done before the 1968 school year opened...
...peanuts. Another time in 1964 the total monthly distribution consisted of beets and celery. Even in the best months, there is an obvious lack of meat and other protein-rich foods. Department of Agriculture tables reveal that a diet based on commodities provides about 3 or 4 per cent of the protein needed for healthy development, and about 350 per cent of the fat and carbohydrate requirement...
...make a student's chance of taking one of the courses rely so heavily on the luck of the geographical draw. While the courses have been open to Radcliffe and to students in other houses, Wilcox says there has been no more than "token integration." About 80 per cent of the Harvard students in most of the courses have been from the house in which it is being offered. One faculty member even suggested during last winter's debates that such discrimination might be legally actionable...