Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closing, let me urge that we not waste more precious time and energies in recriminations about who is at "fault" for the decline in minority applications. ultimately the responsibility must be mine as Dean of Admissions. The more important matter at hand is to work together--students, faculty, administration, and alumni--to improve Harvard's image among minorities and to reach out and contact the many promising students who for one reason or another have chosen not to apply here. The job will not be easy and it will require sustained, cooperative efforts by all of us over a period...
...diamond career through high school varsity stint. My major chore was to keep the raindrops from falling on the bench while the regulars were out on the field. I finally quit the game when I realized the emotional strain it was causing and the lives it was ruining. All mine...
...have it on good authority that twice--once during a strike of copper mine technicians shortly after Allende's election and again during the truckers' strike just before the military coup that murdered him and brought down his government--Chile was so flooded with American dollars that the value of the dollar on the black market fell by about half...
...friend of mine got blown apart in Hue," said an Army major last week, sipping coffee in a Pentagon cafeteria. "He was in charge of a long-range artillery unit. And now you see the people just walking away from Hué. You don't say to yourself, 'He died for nothing.' But you ask: 'For what?' What have we got after nine years? Twenty-twenty hindsight is always preferable, but we probably did the best we could at the time. But still you ask yourself: 'Was it worth it?' There is just...
Died. Herbert Chitepo, 51, chairman of the Zimbabwe African National Union, a black Rhodesian freedom movement; in a land mine explosion as he backed out of his garage; in Lusaka, Zambia. In 1954 Chitepo became Rhodesia's first black lawyer (a special law was required to allow him to occupy chambers with white colleagues). An organizer of the Rhodesian African Nationalist movement, Chitepo went into exile after the movement was banned. His murder shadows efforts toward black-white detente in southern Africa...