Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...researchers continued to look into the matter, the truth turned out to be otherwise. Prisoners in Korea held up no better and no worse than P.O.W.s in other wars. In World War II, so many U.S. prisoners in German and Japanese camps talked so freely that a Defense Department report concluded: "It is virtually impossible for anyone to resist a determined interrogator." In addition to revealing military facts, U.S. prisoners in World War II signed occasional false confessions; yet nothing much was made of it in the U.S. The onus was all on the enemy. Nor did enemy soldiers demonstrate...
...King Jr. was shot, Miller began talking about the post-assassination rioting on Chicago's West Side. On his top-rated WIND show, he declared that there should be a day of tribute for "our brave policemen and firemen." Then, noting an inflammatory-and, it developed, totally false-report that 3,000 rioters were planning to storm the Chicago Avenue Armory, he said, "Do you want...
MANY OF THE committee's recommendations--especially those for the social center--need only Faculty approval for quick implementation. But other proposals face immediate practical problems. The hardest task will be finding the ten professors in Afro-American studies that the report requests. All of the country's major colleges are involved in a fierce drafting rivalry for the same ten men Harvard wants. The supply is so drastically limited that even with an inundative recruiting campaign, Harvard will have a hard time finding its ten professors...
...have to help break the cycle that has caused the shortage of Afro-American specialists. That is exactly the goal of the committee's fourth proposal--intensive recruiting of black graduate students and granting of graduate degrees in Afro-American studies. In addition to this long-term benefit, the report says that more black graduates will help "normalize" race relations at Harvard by providing a stock of black advisors and tutors...
...committee that is to search for the new professors will be half student and half faculty. The tacit understanding seems to be that students won't be saddled with any professors they find unbearable. Considering the inevitable objections that any overt policy of "student control" would spawn, the report's minor equivocation seems justified. JAMES M. FALLOWS