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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coming. Three water bombs suddenly splat in front of them. More shouting and Beta huddles on retaliation. A squad car pulls in front of Beta, talks to a Jock who leans in the window, and leaves. A bottle shatters among a half dozen Beta people. A lot of Jocks immediately attack Carmen, running across the street and scaling a 16-foot gate. A bottle brushes through a tree I am standing under and smashes on the sidewalk three feet away. It is disintegrated, powdered into glass fragments no larger than pebbles. I calculate later that a bottle thrown from...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Columbia Struck | 6/3/1968 | See Source »

...tensions which arise for black athletes are related to the larger issue of a black man's identity rather than to problems within the athletic department. "Coaches want to put black athletes on the field." Johnson said. "A lot of times they're given a more than equal opportunity...

Author: By John C. Merriam, | Title: Harvard's Black Athletes Discuss Sports, Race, and Their Future | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

Winfield, who began fencing only two years ago, has no regrets about joining the ranks of the jocks. "I was a science fiction fiend and a lot of the heroes ran around with swords. I thought...

Author: By John C. Merriam, | Title: Harvard's Black Athletes Discuss Sports, Race, and Their Future | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...paused and added, "There are certain sexual myths associated with black athletes, you know, so we meet a lot of interesting girls...

Author: By John C. Merriam, | Title: Harvard's Black Athletes Discuss Sports, Race, and Their Future | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

Even so, a frontal attempt to improve the lot of a large number of unskilled workers by subsidizing their income is bound to anger the middle class unless the legislation seeks, as does the bill proposed by Congressman Laird, to keep the gap between the poor and the middle class large enough to make the middle class feel secure. Most proposals so far do just that. The Poor Peoples' plan tacitly assumes that anyone with an able body should work for his income. So does the Laird Bill, which incorporaties most of Friedman's views on income subsidies...

Author: By Jerald R. Gerst, | Title: Subsidizing Incomes | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

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