Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...December 1, 1970 edition of the CRIMSON contained a letter to the editors from Judy Baker, Richard Bovd, Paul Gomberg, Marcia Livingston, John McAllen, Richard McCray, Hilary Putnam and Dan Harris, about the Center for International Affairs. The letter contained a personal attack on Professor Samuel Huntington. This attack and the other opinions in the letter express the views of the authors, and not those of the Harvard CRIMSON. The CRIMSON apologizes for the publication of this attack and regrets any embarrassment or inconvenience which publication of the letter may have caused to Professor Huntington...
...members maintained that Harvard's apprenticeship program, as presently constructed, saves the University money it would otherwise spend on higher journeymen's wages. "We're here not just to win 20 cents for Charles McNeil-which we will," said Hilary Putnam, professor of Philosophy. "We're here to win a new helper's program...
...largest (and richest) developer in Cambridge is Max Wasserman of Wasserman Development Corporation, who recently acquired the immense $51/2 million Bertha Cohen estate. He has numerous holdings in Boston and in Harvard and Putnam Squares...
Harvard's current (and first) community effort is the Putnam Square Apartment for the elderly, located at Mt. Auburn St. and Putnam Ave. The twelve-story tower will contain 94 low-income living units, plus community space on the first and twelfth floors. Plans to build family housing at Blair Pond have been forestalled by local neighborhood opposition. This opposition, not unlike that encountered by many housing planners, is basically racism clothed in ecological terms...
Monday's meeting also showed that the problem is not limited to blacks in Cambridge. Two white teenagers from Putnam Gardens appeared before the Council and described a police raid on their Saturday night party. The police called once at the party and told the boys that they had had a complaint and the building would have to be cleared. All but five boys left. The witnesses reported that the police came back and knocked one boy unconscious and dragged him down the stairs by his hair before taking him to the station. The two officers involved in the incident...