Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stint as city manager during that time of changes, but he only lasted from 1968 to 1970. The council, with the support of present Councilors Vellucci, Daniel I. Clinton and Thomas W. Danehy, ousted him in June 1970 over many objections. Cambridge residents crowded into the council chambers to protest the move at a hearing required by the city charter, and former Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28 joined with the then-president of MIT to send a telegram to the nine councilors stating, "Now, as never before, we need stability and continuity in the administrative branch of the city...
Graham's first entry into politics invloved a takeover of the 1971 Harvard Commencement to protest Harvard's intractability on its community development policies...
...among them a number of onetime adversaries, with handshakes and bear hugs. There were warm reunions with Bob Byrd, who beat him out for the post of majority leader only last January; Ted Kennedy, who fought him on behalf of his brothers; Strom Thurmond, who led segregationists in a protest at the 1948 Democratic Convention after upstart Humphrey, a mere 37 and mayor of Minneapolis, issued a clarion call for civil rights. "The greatest gift of life is friendship," Humphrey declared, "and I have received...
...Union. When they do, they go in convoys with a proctor riding shotgun. To pay for keeping the Union open weekends, all but four Houses have abandoned hot breakfasts. Greatly upset at the prospect of going to 9 a.m. classes without waffles, upperclassmen rose up in unsuccessful protest. Their subsequent resentment was as frequently directed against freshmen as toward Dean...
...there is no clear way of identifying which side is "right" and which is "wrong." The best tactic now, he says, is to appoint a wholly new committee, "get a new broom and let it sweep for a while." Visitors reported Hidetada Sasaki and Frederick Rose also resigned in protest of the Overseers' action but despite repeated attempts to contact them, they were unavailable to confirm those reports. Jonathan Barnett, another member of the committee, says he is dissatisfied with Harvard's system; the fact that Overseers' staff members attend visiting committee meetings inhibits discussion, he said. Barnett says that...