Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before the matter is closed, I think it is important for the Harvard community to know just why any other alternative was contemplated. Mr. J. Vernon Patrick '52 had invited the Club to sing in order to have the ideal and reality of integration demonstrated through a performance of serious music by a group from Harvard; through an audience, which was composed in part by a number of Negro students from Miles College; and through a reception to follow for performers and audience alike where he hoped a large number of people would participate in the exchange of talk...
This ideal was in Patrick's mind throughout; but unfortunately due to competing musical events in town, ticket sales had not reached expectations. A boost over a TV news program the morning of the concert was his answer, and he asked my helping publicizing the event by sending a Glee Club octet for a short sport at 7:20 a.m. When he learned that my choice of eight singers included a Negro, he warned that this octet, appearing at the beginning of the day would give segregationists a chance to organize violence or threats of violence which could thus undo...
...growls that emanated from Hanoi and Peking last week had all the gruff timbre of true paper tigers. Both Ho Chi Minh and Mao Tse-tung sneeringly declined to receive British Envoy Patrick Gordon Walker, who had planned a visit to discuss negotiations over Viet Nam. The U.N.'s Secretary-General U Thant got a more raucous rebuff: "U Thant is knocking at the wrong door," bellowed Peking to the suggestion of U.N. involvement. Ho dismissed Lyndon Johnson's offer of "unconditional discussions" over Viet Nam as "stinking of poison gas," and demanded complete withdrawal of U.S. forces...
...Patrick T. Campbell School, Mrs. Edna Pezzolezi, an officer of PUSH ("Parents United to end Schools Hoax"), said her group had complained to the principal of the school about the quality of education there. "He told us that it didn't matter, that these children weren't doing anywhere anyway," she said...
...change will "ease a confused situation and provide a sensible sequence of ." Patrick C. Fischer, assistant professor of Applied Mathematics, examined recently...