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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like a den mother tending some mischievous tykes. "Oh, look at this one!" she exclaims, brushing aside the stalks of a daffodil "with its ears back like a startled cat." Turning to plants suffering from "the sickly miseries," she describes an ivy plant that has dropped its lower leaves as "a miniskirted fatshedera." Then, pausing beside a bed of bursting tulips, she sighs: "Bulbs can bring a private spring...
...York City, and Joseph E. Crangle wields the same kind of power over Erie County (including Buffalo). Although they have not officially supported Kennedy, they do not hide their feelings. A strong county chairman has unmatched influence because he--not a United States Senator or Governor--directly controls the lower-level patronage and favor-dispensation which remain the crux of American politics even when the nation...
Ramsey plans to continue the experiment with certain refinements in order to lower the limit approximately ten times, or to discover the size of the dipole...
What self-respecting black academic would entertain thoughts of coming to Harvard upon reading that "Harvard (has been) forced to lower traditional academic requirements to benefit from black assistance?" Upon reading this, his "barometer of white racism" would be running red. Any black's would. The implication of a double-standard, Harvard-styled, smacks of this same racism you attack...
...Harvard's high cost is part of its admissions procedure," the sheet charged. It said that the cost is an "automatic financial filter" used to discriminate against lower-income applicants...