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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certain period in recent days, the handful of Party people in authority taking the capitalist road instigated peasants to join in armed struggles in cities, forcing factories, mines, party and government organs and schools to cease functioning." It was, if not civil war, civil disorder on a vast scale-and the greatest crisis Mao has yet confronted in his visionary attempt to reshape China in his own austere image...
Huntington is one of two Harvard professors in Vietnam. The other is Arthur Smithies, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy. Smithies is studying the possibility of sponsoring small-scale local business and financing South Vietnamese entrepreneurs...
...enforcement and, through legislation, to do away with the dangerous unfettered sale of firearms. Another is nothing less than the elimination of the ghetto and what it stands for: an increasingly disaffected population. Though probably there will always be violence-out of anger or greed, love or madness-large-scale, socially significant violence is usually caused by authentic grievances, and the U.S. should be able to narrow if not eliminate these. But that leaves, finally, the individual flash or explosion of violence; and to deal with this, man must learn more about man-the mystery that can turn creative energy...
Working from scale drawings and with the aid of the scaffolder, the artist finished his masterwork in just 2½ days. The result: a 50-ft. by 60-ft. bucolic semiabstract that shows 36-ft.-high green grass growing, a blue sky, a white cloud and a red and yellow towerlike structure. There is also an arrow pointing topside-in case anyone needs to know which...
...discussed their programs and responded to questions raised at the meeting, but many officials chose to ignore the Committee's invitation. Because of the fragmentary response by public officials, this report is limited to the remarks of the ghetto dwellers. It is not intended to be a full scale analysis by the Committee of the problems of employment, housing, education, welfare, and municipal services. However, through this report, the Committee hopes to increase public understanding of what it means to be a Negro in Boston...