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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard lightweights row at Navy tomorrow in quest of the Haines Cup. Like their heavy brothers they are undefeated and may be heading for a possible victory at the Eastern Sprints at Worcester in two weeks. If both Harvard crews could win at the Sprints--a distinct possibility if they both win tomorrow--it would be the first time since 1959 that the crimson had captured a double victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Heavyweights Face Princeton, M.I.T. | 5/1/1965 | See Source »

Christian Viewpoint. New medical knowledge has led some courts to adopt a stand that the Roman Catholic Church has held for years-that a child is a distinct person with rights of his own as soon as he is conceived. Doctors have now proved even beyond a lawyer's doubts that the fetus is most susceptible to lasting defects from injuries and drugs during the first three months after conception. As a result, juries are now far more able to assess responsibility and fix damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Litigation: The Unborn Plaintiff | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

...Elliot Medal, given in recognition of published works in zoology or paleontology, was presented to Simpson for his book, "Principles of Animal Taxonomy," published in 1961 by the Columbia University Press. The book sets forth principles and procedures for categorizing the thousands of distinct organisms, both living and fossil, whose identities, similarities, and other biological relationships are important to the progress of biology. He was awarded his first Elliot Medal for "Tempo and Mode in Evolution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: George Simpson Receives Second Academy Medal | 4/29/1965 | See Source »

Then the tornadoes came. In two days, 45 twisters tore through the Midwest, most of them following three distinct paths across portions of Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio. Capricious and unpredictable, they left 243 people dead, an estimated 5,000 injured, and countless others homeless, while the cost in property damage ran to more than $200 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Up the Alley | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

Lately, a distinct reaction against permissiveness has begun. Pressure is increasing from citizens' organizations such as the Roman Catholic National Organization for Decent Literature, the Protestant Churchmen's Committee for Decent Publications, and Citizens for Decent Literature, a nonsectarian organization that now has 300 chapters around the country. These groups are shrill, sincere, and sometimes self-defeating. When a Chicago court ruled three years ago that Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer could be sold locally, the C.D.L. flooded Chicago with excerpts of outrageous passages in the book, undoubtedly giving them wider circulation than they had ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE NEW PORNOGRAPHY | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

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