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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's record to date isn't overwhelming, but pretty soon it's bound to start pulling off upsets instead of just near-misses.

Author: By Joel Havemann, | Title: Cornell Sextet 19-0 Winners in Last Outing Will Oppose Erratic Crimson Here Tomorrow | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

New York Republican Nelson Rockefeller confronted overwhelming Democratic majorities in both houses of the legislature, which should have spelled trouble for him. It only meant more trouble for the Democrats, who just could not seem to get the knack of running things after 30 years in the minority. With the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Governors: Confrontation in the Statehouse | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

The difference between the two occasions was simple but inescapable. The last time Lyndon Johnson stood before a joint session of Congress, the shock and mourning over John Kennedy's assassination had not yet passed. Johnson's State of the Union speech a year ago, for all its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Union & the World | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

Sleep of Innocence. Yet if the price of freedom was high, the cost of tyranny had been overwhelming, as Dumitriu made clear in the semi-autobiographical novel Meeting at the Last Judgment, which he wrote after his escape. In his latest novel, he broadens his scope somewhat. The narrator is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Map of Hell | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

Lamont's letter cited voter registration requirements which it claimed required Negroes to pass highly personal and exceedingly difficult registration tests. The FDP, after falling to gain a place for its candidates on the bailot, conducted a parallel vote which its candidates won by an overwhelming majority.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Professors Join F.D.P.'s Drive | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

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