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...representatives contend that Harvard has violated Executive Order 11246 of 1965, which requires that any institution receiving federal funds must prove that it does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin. (A later Executive Order added sex as an illegal discriminatory basis). The Department of HEW is responsible for investigating these institutions...
...much shaped as draped-in drooping paint-spattered bunches, like clothes drying on a line. He had one on view in this year's Whitney Annual, has had shows at Washington's Jefferson Place Gallery and the Phillips Collection. The only hint of racial origin on the guy-roped canvases of Joe Overstreet is his use of African and, most lately, American Indian colors...
...news comment ??? I've ??? believes that he origin??? the use of the term the quality of life in its present ??? in 1956. He used it then to refer to the Adla Stevenson campaign which challenged the New Deal ??? on "the quantity of life." Typified by Franklin D. Roosevelfs promises of material wel??. The change in rhetoric, from quantity to quality, called for more than just updating New Deal policies, it called for a monumental change in American goals...
...given the floor during a debate on renewal of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. To the amazement of his Northern colleagues, Ribicoff supported a Stennis amendment that would require the Government to apply its desegregation policies "uniformly in all regions of the U.S., without regard to the origin or cause of such segregation." Stennis' purpose was to relieve the mounting pressures on the South by showing that the North is just as unwilling to desegregate its schools...
Frame has been concerned for 17 years with the medical care of missionaries, many of them working in Africa. He has been struck repeatedly by the number reported each year to have died from fever of unknown origin, despite proper treatment for such diseases as malaria and typhus. Frame suspected that some of these mysterious fevers might be caused by still unrecognized viruses, so he arranged to get blood specimens from returning missionaries and from sick missionaries still in Africa. His reasoning: the viruses would have left indelible footprints, in the form of antibodies, in their victims' blood...