Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cabinet was hardly lolling abed either. Nixon scheduled the swearing-in ceremony for eleven of the twelve department heads for 8 a.m. (Interior Secretary Walter Hickel's confirmation was delayed by opposition from some Senate Democrats. He was sworn later in the week.) Perhaps to further his effort to boost the Cabinet's prestige, Nixon suggested that one of its members might run for President some day. After all, he pointed out, eight previous Presidents were Cabinet alumni.* But he warned: "If any of you is going to come through, we must get to work. It is time...
Pennsylvania used the shooting of guards Steve Bilsky and Dave Wohl to beat Harvard. Both scored in the 20's, nullifying the best effort of Gallagher's varsity career. Harvard almost certainly will attempt to pressure the two guards and force them into bad shots...
...urging the City of Cambridge to develop a larger program for publicly assisted housing. . . . It is vital that the supply of low cost housing (especially for the elderly) and of moderate cost housing (for both faculty and community residents) be increased: this cannot be done without joint public-private effort sof a kind and scale not yet attempted in the city. . . . We believe it is possible for the city and the universities to announce, after appropriate study, a joint program to add a certain number of housing units with a five or ten year program. We would like...
Working on the theory that Harvard blacks suffer from dual alienation--from whites at Harvard and from the black community at home--the report suggests two non-educational reforms: a review of the "morality" of Harvard's involvement in the community, and an effort to improve black social life here...
Mumford considers the McCarthy movement and the revolt in the Universities proofs of his hypotheses and signs of hope. The first, he feels, was an effort to recapture for human beings a system that has become increasingly inward-looking--taking orders from its computers and social scientists instead of its subjects. The University upheaval he sees as a healthy effort to restore the University to its rightful place as detached critic of the system instead of participant in its oppression of human life. "Everytime a professor goes to the Pentagon he is binding the University that much closer...