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Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, who reported from Saigon for TIME in the mid-60s, noted the emotional wrenching that the events in Indochina worked on Americans with long involvement in South Viet Nam's fortunes. Many of Schecter's sources spent years "in country" as soldiers, diplomats or intelligence officers, and they feel a deep sense of loss. "The war is personalized for the Americans who served in Viet Nam," Schecter wired last week. "Somehow everybody feels that they did not do enough. None of the experts I talked to is blaming the Vietnamese in his heart...
William B. Shockley is a short, gentle-looking 63-year-old professor of electrical engineering at Stanford. In the 1940s he helped develop the transistor and won the Nobel Prize for his work. In the mid-60s, Shockley shifted his focus from his field of expertise to an area he knew almost nothing about--genetics...
...also cited increases in black political and economic opportunity since the mid-60s as progress toward the ideals expressed in Brown...
...broke with Charles in 1968, whereupon he flew to the Indians. Alvin never got along that well with management, and GM Gabe Paul ousted him in 1970. He reminds me a lot of Hank Bauer, the crusty if effective skipper of the O's in the mid-60s...
...Health Career Summer Program grew out of a similar program, the Intensive Study Summer Program (ISSP), that Harvard, Yale and Columbia conducted in the mid-60s. The ISSP was oriented to graduate school rather than medical school, and its students came from small colleges in the South, many of them black colleges. The students in the program would come to the Ivy League for a summer and leave better prepared for academic careers...