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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sneak in at night to plant bombs and kill whomever they can. Our own country has reacted the same many times-against Indians, Mexicans and Tripoli pirates-and we react in similar ways today when our interests are threatened. And tell me, please, how would you react if somebody kept hitting you every time your back was turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 16, 1967 | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

...dilemma was finally "resolved" because of the Administration's embarrassment over the final clubs. The AAAAS was urged to strike out the discriminatory clause and, implicitly, substitute one of membership by invitation. Armah would have none of this. He kept telling the undergraduates, especially the American Ntgroes who were willing to accept the "final club" compromise...

Author: By Harold A. Mcdougall, | Title: AAAAS: Negro Students Test Liberalism | 6/15/1967 | See Source »

...election of senior class officers was one of the year's major events; the CRIMSON's coverage lasted for days, culminating in a tally of the vote for every candidate. Lower ranking faculty-members lived with a protracted system for getting tenure that kept them even less secure than they...

Author: By Robert A. Rafsky, | Title: Class of 1942 Had One Opportunity: War | 6/12/1967 | See Source »

This is not a measure of what the Class of '42 felt or did; it is only a measure of what happened to its leadership. After its freshman year, for the most part, tradition kept pulling it in--not because it was conservative, but because the time for assertive protest passed it by too quickly...

Author: By Robert A. Rafsky, | Title: Class of 1942 Had One Opportunity: War | 6/12/1967 | See Source »

...President J. H. Young, "my own secretary didn't know what was going on. If there had been any leak, the price of United's stock would have gone so high that we might not have wanted to monkey with it." Even the board of directors was kept in the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mergers: The Tender War | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

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