Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...situation in which it can be literally unprofitable to hold income-yielding investments. What especially disturbs many of the 95,000 Britons affected by the tax is the belief that they are, in effect, being penalized for investing in the very economy that the government supposedly means to help. Moreover, by making the measure retroactive, Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins left them little time to minimize the burden by shedding their holdings. In defending his action, Jenkins pronounced it only fair that "fortunately placed individuals" make "some small contribution from their capital...
...spring of 1945, with the Nazis on the verge of defeat, a small group of scientists crowded into a cave in southern Germany for one last attempt at starting a chain reaction in their uranium pile. It was far too late to produce an atomic bomb that could help the fatherland. But the scientists-unaware that the U.S. had accomplished the feat more than two years before-were determined that Germany should produce the world's first nuclear chain reaction before the war ended. Their experiment, like the entire German A-bomb program, ended in failure...
...January, Harvard refused to allow WGBH-TV to televise a Lowell Lecture Hall teach-in on the war in Vietnam arranged after Dr. Benjamin Spock, the Rev. William Sloan Coffin, Michael Ferber, a second-year graduate student, and two other men were indicted for conspiracy to help others evade the draft...
...American Indians all be admitted in proportion to their percentage of the national population, and Negro admissions should not be reduced to this numbers game either. Harvard admission policies are the least legitimate target here for Afro's criticism. Harvard has aggressively sought Negro students for years (with recruiting help from Afro), and Dr. Chase Peterson, dean of admissions, indicated yesterday that the University will, as it must, become even more aggressive...
...letter, written by Arthur N. Dion '68, head of the Quincy chapter, asks parents to "help us find opportunities for draft resisters to serve society in the business, academic, and professional communities...