Word: finding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have an impact on the war. According to accounts that suddenly appeared on TV and in the world press last week, a company of 60 or 70 U.S. infantrymen had entered My Lai early one morning and destroyed its houses, its livestock and all the inhabitants that they could find in a brutal operation that took less than 20 minutes. When it was over, the Vietnamese dead totaled at least 100 men, women and children, and perhaps many more. Only 25 or so escaped, because they lay hidden under the fallen bodies of their relatives and neighbors...
BEFORE the downfall of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviets boasted that the first American to land on the moon would find a Russian there to welcome him. As the third and fourth American astronauts walked on the lunar surface, no Russian had yet ventured more than a few hundred miles into space. The prospects for an imminent Soviet manned lunar mission dimmed even further last week when it was revealed that the Russian space program had recently been struck by a major disaster...
...matter of the ways in which black people are paid less and forced to live in poor housing. The reason that Harvard can get experienced black painters at a lower wage (besides the fact that helpers are lied to about promotions) is that these men can't find jobs elsewhere because of discrimination. To justify profiting from skilled black painters hired for the low helpers' wage. Harvard claims that it can't find "qualified" black workers. This is false. It builds the idea-a racist idea-that black people are inferior, that black people are less qualified...
Sarah M. Glazer '70 challenged the figures on kitchen workers Mrs. Bunting presented in her statement (CRIMSON, Nov. 19). "I don't think she even tried to find out what the facts are," she said...
...reports on Washington in the CRIMSON of November 20 reflect an attitude which I find very disturbing. I had thought people would march because they deplored the Vietnam situation, the death of two nations and two peoples. The march did not end the war and Nixon ignored it anyway. But he couldn't deny that a quarter of a million people were there in protest...