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...Kennedy's last visits to the black ghetto, it was not entirely an accident. Seemingly awakened from a trance by Kennedy's murder. Nelson Rockefeller was at last campaigning for real, openly seeking the support of the poor and the minorities who had made Kennedy such a potent political force...
Frankly bidding for worker support in their cause, the students demanded university admission for more students from working-class backgrounds. Tito, in order to head off any such potent alliance of workers and students as that in France last month, ordered plastic-helmeted militiamen to patrol outside the university and banned all public demonstrations. He was also quick to throw a bone in the workers' direction, ordering the minimum wage of $12 a month doubled immediately. Within hours, dozens of published messages poured into student headquarters from factory Communist committees, most agreeing vaguely to aims of reform...
...complete record "package" before peddling it to the companies. Today roughly 70% of the releases that reach the bestseller charts are produced by the 100 or so independents now at work across the country. All but invisible to the general public, these producers constitute one of the most potent influences in pop music. Among them...
Less conspicuous than its recommendations to the CEP were a series of influential HPC department audits. These detailed written studies of what ails Harvard's various fields of concentration have become consistently potent politically. An audit of the History Department in the fall dealt a death blow to general examinations which were to be required of Juniors. The most remarkable HPC audit was one of the Department of Architectural Sciences. Composed by students who were in close consultation with Faculty in the department, it wrote the design for a new department of Visual and Environmental Studies which the Faculty created...
...Faculty, a voice in all permanent appointments, and control over committees and parliamentary procedure. As formulator of the Faculty budget, the Dean distributes funds among the Faculty's many units and establishes priority lists for financing projects. His freedom from the Faculty in money matters can be a potent device in the shaping of educational policy, admissions procedure, and the making of Faculty appointments...