Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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University officials have been worried for months about the impact of new draft rules lifting the exemptions of most graduate students next year (TIME, Nov. 24, 1967), but without any reliable estimate of just how hard they would be hit. Last week they had some solid figures to consider, and there was indeed cause for gloom. Based on the probability that almost all draftable men aged 22 through 25 will be called (the draft takes older eligibles first), a survey by the Council of Graduate Schools and the Scientific Manpower...
Buried Guilts. That incident provides one of the more dramatic moments in an otherwise overprotective biography of a man who was widely regarded as the. world's leading Negro writer before his death in 1960 at the age of 52. It is difficult to overestimate the impact of Native Son, the story of Bigger Thomas, a Negro youth who responds to the psychological pressures of racialism by killing two women. In that best-selling novel, Wright plowed up buried fears and guilts and gave millions of white Americans their first raw whiff of "The Problem...
...definition the exports of other nations, so they must face reduced exports, which will cause them to reduce their imports, which are the exports of still other nations, and so it goes. Because of the complexity of trade relations, it is impossible to predict the magnitude of the eventual impact upon international trade, but it is certain that there is some sort of "multiplier" operating...
...even larger share of the war's burden is, thus, about to be shifted onto Negroes. The ghetto will be directly hit by the curtailing of federal programs, but the unemployment resulting from a slowdown of the economy may have an even greater impact. Negroes have always been the first to be laid off as firms react to a decelerating economy, and it is probable that the number laid off will peak sometime during the summer. If the President and Congress were trying to build riot potential, their timing could scarcely have been better...
...impressive discussion on a wide range of issues beyond those just related to the plight of the black man in America only reinforced the thoughts of many students, particularly the black students, that the need for black instructors at Harvard can no longer be ignored or overlooked. Hamilton's impact on whites and blacks was equally important and impressive, even if for different reasons. "It irks me," one black student commented, "that we see individuals like you once or twice a year, if that often. We need people like you here at Harvard and not just for a visit...