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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press didn't help their unity, either. Dr.Spock accused the New York press corps of trying to split the moderates from the coalition by overpublicizing its radical elements. His gripe was no Richard Nixon. At the Friday press conference, the questions--almost all of them--fell into three general categories...

Author: By W. BRUCE Springer, | Title: A Black Carnival in the Park: Hippies, Housewives, Husbands Join in an Ungainly Alliance | 4/20/1967 | See Source »

...major educational reform, it is still worth fighting for. A student's reluctance to experiment, for one thing, may come not from a fear of bad grades or anything concrete, but a simple, instinctive reaction that certain courses are too strange, too rough for him. If pass-fail could help to break down that kind of barrier--and the number of students who have expressed interest in taking Fine Arts 13 and Music 1 pass-fail indicates it might--that alone would justify...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pass Fail's Magic | 4/20/1967 | See Source »

...Dean's Office has been repeatedly pressed by a number of members of the Freshman Class for a statement of the College's administrative position with respect to the use of drugs, including marijuana and L.S.D. If it will help anyone, I am pleased to clarify our position...

Author: By J.u. Monro, | Title: Gentlemen of 1970: | 4/19/1967 | See Source »

...student interpreters go to a "noodle stand" -- an after-work social club--where, Lederer will have his palm read (an obsession among Thais) to gain peoples' trust and "to show them that you are not trying to catch them." After his palm has been read, Lederer, with the help of his students, reads palms himself and starts asking questions. "When I ask a man what he would most like to win, he may say a lottery, so that he will have some money because the Government official is stealing it all from the local treasury. Then I know there...

Author: By William Woodward, | Title: William J. Lederer | 4/19/1967 | See Source »

...occasion (most often during spring riots) campus police will request Cambridge help. The Cambridge police answer the call, but both parties regard such intervention as a courtesy service rather than an assertion of authority. University cops just as frequently help out their Cambridge counterparts. Last Thanksgiving, eight University policemen battled high-school rioters in the Square when Cambridge Police found themselves undermanned. "We have a good working relationship," says Tonis. "They can help us and we can help them...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: The Harvard University Police: Walking The Fine Line Between Cop and Caretaker | 4/18/1967 | See Source »

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