Word: leftwingers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, likes to tell a story about the time he asked a Radcliffe freshman why she was so intent on being pre-med. Although she wasn't really sure, when he pressed her, she finally answered, "We want to do something to help people--that...
FEUDING FIEFS. Following De Gasperi's death in 1954, the party began to divide up along ideological and geographical lines into jealous fiefs ruled by various political princes. The factions stood together during elections but resumed a debilitating power struggle once the votes had been counted. Today, for instance...
The trouble began in 1974, two years after Miller's insurgent election victory over W.A. ("Tony") Boyle, who is now serving a life sentence for conspiracy to murder U.M.W. Reformer Joseph ("Jock") Yablonski. After his win, Miller purged the entire Boyle-appointed executive board. To his dismay, the new...
Replacing SDS as the major leftwing political group at Harvard, NAM--a national but decentralized group with several student chapters, founded two years ago last fall--has worked hard to generate support for several different issues among a largely apathetic student body. Using a wide array of tactics, including leafletting...
Rep. Benjamin A. Gilman is a young, popular freshman congressman from New York's half rural, half suburban, and very conservative 26th district. Lying on the northern fringes of New York City, the district is composed of fugitives from the city's turmoil and those who fear it from a...