Word: kohn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Henry I. Kohn, Gaiser Professor of Radiation Biology at the Medical School, has been appointed director of the recently established Center for Human Genetics...
Died. Hans Kohn, 79, prolific Prague-born historian; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. Author of some 30 books, Kohn warned that nationalism, if not peacefully channeled, results in totalitarianism and dictatorship. As a lecturer at Harvard and at Smith College, Kohn struggled "to get people excited over the right things. People need excitement, so they turn to Marilyn Monroe. Or they turn to storm troopers or to Stakhanovism, and these we must object...
Most white students were cautious but resigned. "We have to put up with it," said Tommy Miller, a white ninth-grader at the formerly all-black N. D. Taylor High School. Nor were all the blacks enthusiastic about the change. "I would still rather be at Taylor," said Wallace Kohn, a black senior at the city high school. "I had my privileges there." But both blacks and whites seemed determined to make the best of the situation. "There were too many colored kids," said Ninth-Grader Denise Richards after her first day at Taylor. "I'm going...