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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DuBois left Great Barrington to make his place in the world: to challenge and ultimately defeat Booker T. Washington: to found, in effect, the NAACP: and to become the father of twentieth century black intellectuals. His efforts to solve the American racial dilemma led him to take varied political positions, from black nationalism to Communism. Finally, surrendering all home in America, he want to Africa where he died in 1963. Last week a small portion of the world made its way to a small field, just off Route 23 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts to pay homage to this...

Author: By Lee A. Daniels, | Title: America DuBois Memorial Park | 10/25/1969 | See Source »

Nixon's proposed changes will make the first conviction for marijuana possession a misdemeanor rather than a felony, eliminate the two-year mandatory minimum sentence, and reduce the penalty to a one-year maximum jail sentence or $5000 fine. Subsequent convictions still will carry a mandatory minimum jail sentence of five years, and a maximum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Med Professors Hit Laws Against Pot | 10/25/1969 | See Source »

...Robert S. Blacklow, assistant to the dean of the Faculty of Medicine for curriculum, added that "just to make the first offense a misdemeanor doesn't solve the problem. There will be repeaters, so the penalties must continue to be light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Med Professors Hit Laws Against Pot | 10/25/1969 | See Source »

...Esquire magazine figured they didn't have much to lose when they eulogized him a year later as a "future culture hero." Even if they had been wrong about his appeal to college students (they weren't), they could be sure that the spread they were giving him would make him a culture hero even if he wasn't destined to be one. The appearance of the article guaranteed fulfillment of their prediction. They printed big two-page photo of Farina surrounded by quotes from his book and had Joan Baez, Farina's sister-in-law, write a brief portrait...

Author: By Andrew G. Klein, | Title: More American Images Richard Farina: Cultural Hero? | 10/25/1969 | See Source »

...ANTIBODIES by Peter Baker. 377 pages. Putnam. $6.95. A transparent and pedestrian attempt to make the bestseller list, using the theme of medical malpractice in transplant surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Week: The Literary Overflow | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

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