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...spring of 1953, three Harvard faculty members, including Associate Professor of Physics Wendell H. Furry, were called before Congress to testify about their ties to the Communist Party, and all three invoked their Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions...
...eyes of Pusey’s predecessor, James B. Conant ’14, pleading the Fifth was tantamount to an admission of guilt, and many universities had dismissed faculty members who remained silent under questioning...
...Conant really didn’t think that somebody who took the Fifth Amendment deserved to be kept on, and said so,” says Brandeis historian Morton Keller, co-author of the book Making Harvard Modern. “Pusey, who had clashed with McCarthy in Wisconsin, knew pretty much who he was, and I think by the standards of the time was stronger on academic freedom than Conant...
...followed by tanks, the mere sight of which swept most of the German resistance away. The fighting was harder at Sword Beach, where German defenders stiffened against the specter of the Allies' capturing the nearby city of Caen. The hardest fighting of all raged throughout the day on the fifth beach, Omaha. It was a relatively narrow strand of shoreline overshadowed by 100-ft. cliffs. Troops trying to land there found themselves in a horrifying position, vulnerable to machine-gun and mortar fire from above. The only route out lay through four ravines carved by the wind and water through...
...Fifth Floor, the posh restaurant in Harvey Nichols (the like-Harrods-but-hipper store), serves sophisticated Milanoesque cuisine. Thanks to Fifth's seriously geeky sommeliers, its wine scene pulses with options. Try one of the new wine flights--a selection of four wines organized around a theme...