Word: leveretts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position taken by the rights leaders, such as Wilkins, Farmer, King, and the White liberals, that is--the problem can be solved. America can guarantee to all people their human rights--people can live together. The second position is that taken by Malcolm X in his discussion at Leverett House--the problem cannot be solved, the whites and the blacks can never live together, their differences are greater than their common humanity. Malcolm X urges that White America give the Negroes their share of the GNP and allow them to go to Africa and start afresh...
Mail from Massachusetts residents to Sen. Leverett Saltonstall (R.Mass.) has been running four to one in favor of the bill, an assistant in his office reported yesterday, but last summer the ratio was as high as 50-1. Mail to Saltonstall's office from other states, however, has been "99% against the bill," according to the side. Most of these out-of-state letters are from California and the South...
When Theodore Sorensen moved into Leverett Towers, he secluded himself in a sparsely furnished tutor's suite with some books and a few belongings. For a week...
...made his first appearance in the Dining Hall for lunch. Conversation teetered on neutral subjects--mathematical tricks and why the Leverett elevators only stop every second floor. At the end of the first meal, Sorensen was reminded that at Harvard one returns one's tray to the kitchen...
Since these first encounters with the House, Sorensen has relaxed considerably. But he is not a talkative man. At an interview soon after he moved into Leverett, he answered questions easily but maintained a deep reserve. Wearing one of the dark suits he favors and a PT boat tieclip, Sorensen spoke with a trace of a smile, specifying as he went where he could be quoted. It was hard to ask him about Kennedy because the questions seemed so personal. What, for example, were some of the greatest popular misconceptions about Kennedy? "I would rather the answer to that appeared...