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Afro-American Studies' birth at Harvard was indeed painful. The department, created in the aftermath of the Harvard strike of 1969, can't seem to shake that era's legacy of tension, fear and bitterness. Even the Faculty vote establishing the department sparked a major controversy, for the body had committed the exceptionally rare action of disregarding a committee recommendation...
...faculty-student committee chaired by Rosovsky, then professor of Economics, recommended setting up an interdisciplinary concentration that would combine a traditional field such as history or economics with Afro-American Studies. But after the student strike, pressure mounted to create a full-fledged department that would permit an uncombined major and allow students unprecedented governing powers. Although Rosovsky vehemently protested this proposal, the Faculty voted for a department in an emotionally-charged meeting in April...
Baker, who is an unannounced candidate for the Republican nomination, said if he and Kennedy are the major party presidential candidates, he "would never mention Chappaquiddick...
...race against Kennedy would be "eminently winnable," Baker said, adding that the major issue would be whether Kennedy "is in step with what the country wants now." He also said the voters would "quickly sort out the nostalgia from the record on issues...
Yazstrsemski is the 14th major leaguer ever to collect 3000 hits, and the first American Leaguer in history to also slug 400 home runs. Fans flooded the field and the game was stopped for 15 minutes while Yaz accepted the congratulations of his teammates and of the opposing New York Yankees...