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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might be possible to reach consensus over a less extreme proposal such as giving Stauder a one-year appointment under the terms he would have had before the University Hall occupation in which he was arrested...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: Hurdles Face Stauder In Bid for Rehiring | 11/18/1969 | See Source »

Granted, Atkins was an incumbent, and what is less well known is that he frequently votes law-and-order. But his conservatism was not made an issue in his campaign, and he had, in fact, deliberately played up his sympathy with Roxbury in order to maximize his drawing power in the black community. Since the blacks account for only 15 per cent of Boston's electorate, they alone could not put him in office, and what is politically incredible is the support he found in lily-white precincts where Hicks coasted to victory. For example, in Allston, hardly expected...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Boston Elections | 11/17/1969 | See Source »

Seconds later. Brown had its first League victory, and Harvard had a little less with which to face a Yale team next Saturday that is sure to want revenge...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Crimson Gridders Beaten; First Ivy Win for Bruins | 11/17/1969 | See Source »

...police first shot gas at the front of the crowd, which began to retreat immediately. Then as the 10,000- both militant demonstrators and less-militant spectators- on Constitution Avenue tried to leave the area, the crowd was bottle-necked by narrow exits...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Police Tear Gas Routs Demonstrators In Skirmish at Department of Justice | 11/17/1969 | See Source »

...lyrics are rather less saccharine than most C and W songs, but a couple of the tearjerkers are still there. True country music has simplified the job of the songwriter considerably. The major themes of the genre are "home, sweet home," Mother, and the girl-friend who is off with another man. Creativity is not a criterion...

Author: By Jill Curtis, | Title: Through the Morning, Through the Night | 11/17/1969 | See Source »

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