Word: research
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special preview tonight. Eliot Elisofon, research associate in Primitive Art, will give a slide lecture on African art. The preview and exhibition commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of George Peabody, the Museum's founder...
...demonstrations include last Saturday's women's rally at Fenway, a several-day protest against war research projects at MIT, and a mass march in downtown Boston next Saturday. In preparation for the demonstrations, the coalition has helped to establish radical organizations in many colleges and high schools where little previous political activity existed...
Four of the projects deal with applied weapons research-the Multiple Independently-targeted Re-entry Vchicle (MIRV), the ABM, the Moving Target Indicator, and the Helicopter Project. MIRV is an attempt to develop a first-strike nuclear capability. The U.S. could use the threat of this capability to aid its foreign policy. Both MIRV and ABM are enormous subsidies to the defense industries, and as such point to the distorted priorities of American corporate capitalism...
...three other projects are in the social sciences-Project Cambridge. Project Com-Com, and the International Communism Project. Each of these projects, the last of which is less important than the other two, involves research and applied technology that would be used in the aid of American foreign policy...
DEMONSTRATIONS against these projects are only the first step in an attempt to change the educational machinery at M.I.T. from its defense-related bias. They are the beginning of a city-wide movement to end M.I.T.s participation in all war research and add still more volume to the growing...