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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Raising so much money is not easy, and the University has not left its capital campaigns to chance. President Pusey has developed an elaborate fund-raising system to obtain new support. The whole operation centers in the office of James R. Reynolds, Assistant to the President for Development and known informally as the "Grand Old Man of the business...
...advisor of the Friends of SNCC, was told that his contract would not be renewed the following year. The administration indicated that Jones had been fired for academic reasons alone; that the university had a surplus of teachers in his field, international relations, and that Jones had promised to obtain his Ph.D., and had not yet done so. Jones says he will receive his doctorate on schedule this June, in spite of the fact that he has been teaching a full load of courses all year. In his letter to the chairman of the division of social sciences, Jones wrote...
...Drop. Looking skyward, Surveyor spotted Venus, photographed it and transmitted the pictures to scientists, who will use them to obtain a precise fix on the spacecraft. Knowing the position of Venus in the sky and the angle of the camera mirror at the time each picture was taken, scientists can determine Surveyor's exact location...
...Carmichael has found a perplexing and almost insurmountable problem in recruiting 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week revolutionaries from the Negro middle-class. Behind Carmichael, the leadership cult is pre-occupied with presenting an image of bitter coolness. SNCC has rejected intellectualism -- the notion that Negroes must obtain certain credentials and legitimacy from education to be meaningful to the Negro community -- as bourgeois and escapist...
Levy appeared at a formal hearing several weeks ago before the Cambridge police chief, fire chief, and commissioner of licenses to obtain official permission to sell second-hand clothing. The group sent Levy a letter telling that the Krackerjack store lacked proper electrical wiring and a rear exit. He replied that the building had already passed a city inspection, but spent $300 on additional electrical repairs anyway...