Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...message was brutally harsh: "Fifteen dollars per nigger." In these words, a newly formed National Black Economic Development Conference last month demanded that "white Christian churches and Jewish synagogues" pay $500 million in "reparations" to U.S. Negroes or face the possibility of disruption of church operations and seizure of church facilities. Last week conference speaker James Forman, one-time executive director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, disrupted a Sunday Communion service at Manhattan's Riverside Church to demand, among other things, that the church, located on the edge of Harlem, turn over 60% of its investment income...
...Harvard professor yesterday told a conference on high speed ground transportation at Carnegie-Mellon University that proposed 300-mile-per-hour trains may create problems of health and comfort for passengers...
Harvard students from their own personal earnings, not their parents' resources, pay the following portion of their Harvard education costs: ( ) 75 per cent; ( ) 50 per cent; ( ) 25 per cent; ( ) 10 per cent; ( ) zero. (Choose...
These Institute Scholars, known officially as Associate Scholars, are awarded fellowships of up to $3000 per year to work on independent projects on a part-time basis. Chosen from more than 200 applicants, 18 to 25 women, about half of whom have doctorate degrees, become Institute Scholars each year. The Institute can accommodate only 40 Scholars at any given time, so a Scholar can stay at the Institute two years at the most...
...Radcliffe Trustees, the Institute--though it remains a rather elite organization--has gradually influenced and financed more and more women besides the Scholars. More than 20 women in universities in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island are able to do part-time graduate work through fellowships of up to $3000 per year from the Institute. In Greater Boston hospitals, about 25 women physicians are finishing their medical training with the help of Institute grants of up to $4000 per year. All these women have similar problems: since they have husbands and babies to care for, they need extra money and flexible...