Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tribal advisory council meeting, 58-year-old Annie Wauneka, the council's first squaw, rose to ask if the 1968 Civil Rights Act forbade the tribe to banish unwanted whites from the reservation. When he heard her question, local OEO Chief Ted Mitchell, 32, laughed sardonically. To Mrs. Wauneka, Mitchell's laugh was an insult. The next time she saw him, she snapped: "You ready to laugh some more?" Then she smacked the Harvard Law School graduate several times across the face. The following day, two Navajo policemen, acting on council orders, packed Mitchell into his pickup truck...
Kain presently is working on a study of migration from the South to Northern metropolitan areas and is doing research on housing markets. A consultant to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, he has been extensively concerned with the problem of race relations...
...recognized in their culture as a breakdown. Certain people in our community no doubt do feel like that, but too many don't think that carrying a gun is a sign of inferiority. The Chinese have felt very deeply that people who will resort to violence on ordinary civil and other occasions are out. That's a tremendous protection for a counttry; and it is one, we may hope, they still have. When you think of the number of people, the amount of moving about, and the amount of tension inside that great community, it's amazing how little loss...
Guidelines announced yesterday by the U.S. Office of Civil Rights should not affect black studies programs now being planned at Harvard...
...does show how the humble Drosophila led Haldane to what may be considered the central drama of his life. He was one of the last of the hard-core Stalinists in the Western intellectual community-a genuine holdover from the liberal-Communist marriage of the '30s. During the Civil War, he went to Spain as to a shrine. He closed his eyes to the horrors of Stalin's purges, shrugged off the Hitler-Stalin pact. Unused to the logic of the world, he failed to draw the conclusions that occurred to less talented men as a result...