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Word: placed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are now and have been for several years three overwhelmingly strong influences in black Rock and Roll. Foremost, of course, is Motown. For breadth of talent, monetary and technical resources, cross-cultural impact and sheer volume of sales, Berry Gordy's corporation is IT. In second place and trying harder is Atlantic, the parent company of the Stax-Volt labels. And all by himself, James Brown, the Culture-Hero Who Walks Like A Man, occupies a discrete, if not always discreet, position that for our purposes can be labeled number three...

Author: By Clyde Lindsay, | Title: Black Singers Became Self-Aware in 1968 | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

...moment, Harvard is two and one-half games behind fourth place Cornell, an overtime victim of the Crimson Saturday night. Harvard is a game and one-half fifth place Yale...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Cagers Set Eyes On 1st Division | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

With fourth place the cutoff spot in the eight team league, it doesn't look promising, right? Wrong, Cornell, now 6-6 will lose its last two games against Ivy front-runners Princeton and Penn...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Cagers Set Eyes On 1st Division | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

...Harvard wins that game and those with Brown Friday and Dartmouth next Tuesday; Yale beats Dartmouth as expected; and Cornell loses twice, also as expected, then there will be a three-way tie for fourth place in the Ivy League...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Cagers Set Eyes On 1st Division | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

...Having spent the summer in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas as a FOCUS Field Representative, the author describes how an idea can become a operative program. Planned and run by eleven Harvard undergraduates, FOCUS worked in 18 southern and western states to place 86 Upward Bound students in colleges away from home...

Author: By James Q. Wilson, | Title: FOCUS in Perspective: Between Shadow and Act | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

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