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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...request of the senior class, Yale officials broke a 75-year-old tradition to allow a student, Class Secretary William M. Thompson Jr., to give a commencement address. Thompson, an honor student in American Studies from Richmond, announced that the class had voted overwhelmingly to dedicate its commencement to opposition to the war. In addition, he said, 143 seniors had pledged to refuse induction if drafted. "The vast majority of Yale seniors want to serve and protect their country," he said, adding that "patriotism is not dead on the college campus today." But patriotism is not "blind obedience...
...when two groups of investigators, one headed by Dr. Thomas Weller at Harvard, the other led by Dr. Paul D. Parkman at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, isolated the virus and devised ways of cultivating it in the laboratory. Parkman and a fellow pediatrician, Dr. Harry M. Meyer Jr., subsequently teamed up to attenuate or "tame" the virus so that, in a vaccine, it would cause no disease but would still trigger the making of antibodies and thereby produce immunity. Their strain, which was dubbed HPV-77, is the basis of the vaccine now licensed...
Chairman William McChesney Martin of the Federal Reserve Board warned that without the surtax "we cannot succeed" in slowly controlling today's "critically serious" inflation. Sitting at his side, Treasury Secretary David M. Kennedy* declared: "The problem is much more difficult than I realized. We can't let this escalate into runaway inflation, and we're very close to that now." If Congress allows the tax to expire, he added, the economy could race far enough out of control to create "the possibility of a serious recession." To prevent that, Secretary Kennedy warned that the Government would...
...Virtually nothing is going into the savings account," says Wayne Costley. "I'm still in my 30s, but I don't have the freedom to enjoy these years. There's no boat, there are no trips. I work hard, but it amounts to Nancy's going on vacation with the kids once in four years...
Jackie: Do you believe in masturbation? Interviewer: But the point of Roth to me was the language. Jackie: Yes. Shlong. That's a new word to me. You're so uptight. Why are you uptight? I'm relaxed. Life is fun. Great fun is high art. What do you read? Interviewer: Well, I just read I Am Mary Dunne, by Brian Moore. Jackie: I am what? Mary Hun? Never heard of it. Do you have children? Interviewer: I have three. Jackie: I know your type. You have French records on while you're feeding the baby...