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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choose between research projects and programs for training urban teachers. The Ed School has one of the lowest endowments in the University (less than two percent of the University's total), dependent on grants for two thirds of its funds. It runs a perpetual deficit, compounded in the past few years by an expensive project to construct a new library...
...Cambridge and does not intend to do so." [A resolution had requested the University to "disavow the use of straws (front men) and other manipulative devices to acquire land and housing in Cambridge."] Real estate speculators not connected with the University have used Harvard's name in the past when buying land, Whitlock said, suggesting that persons so approached should call...
Britain's Michael Frayn has switched in the past few years from professional satirist-funny once a week in the London Observer-to novelist. Few writers have managed that transition successfully, and even fewer with Frayn's apparently effortless assurance. His first three novels (The Tin Men, The Russian Interpreter and Against Entropy) dealt humorously enough with contemporary life. His fourth is bolder and by no means funny...
...past, the Colloquium has been a major event at the Divinity School. The first one, held in 1963, discussed Protestant-Catholic relations; the second, in 1966, dealt with Jewish-Christian relations...
...York Mayor John Lindsay drifted into the conversation, and Deloros said, "If Lindsay can walk the streets of Harlem and Brooklyn, why can't our mayor come down here and talk to us? He's just a few blocks over there," she said with a gesture sweeping past a juke box toward the dustry rear of the rectangular room. "He really should come here and see the people," she said, "That's what keeps him in office--the people...