Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IN THE MATTER OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER is a dramatization of the 1954 Atomic Energy Commission hearings on the security clearance of the renowned physicist. The testimony unfolds like an interminable dream; the play, rather than tingling with the anguish of a man torn between his country and his conscience...
When reformers have tried to go beyond these small initiatives, they have suffered outright defeats. The efforts of Ocean Hill-Brownsville are one example, but even in Philadelphia, where a dynamic school superintendent committed his prestige to expanding community involvement, the school bureaucracy stifled community efforts. In May, 1968, Mark...
An hour before the raid, more than 100 policemen from local suburban forces gathered behind Memorial Hall. There were officers and paddy wagons from Cambridge, Boston, Newton, Somerville, Arlington, Watertown, and the Metropolitan District Commission.
The Council--which will be similar to the Hoover Commission appointed by President Truman--will undertake a thorough review of the organization of the executive branch and present recommendations for improving government effectiveness.
After retiring from Harvard in 1960, Bender served as a director of the Boston Permanent Charity Fund and was appointed a member of the Massachusetts Crime Commission in 1963.