Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard is almost barren of active campus politics today; only the brutal racism in southern Africa has rippled our calm academic waters and threatened our smug ivory tower. It is hard for us to appreciate the explosive, polarized atmosphere that existed here less than ten years ago; hard, therefore, for us to understand the forces that gave rise...
...When I was growing up on a farm in the state of Georgia, in the heart of the southern United States, an invisible wall of racial segregation stood between me and my black playmates. It seemed then as if that wall between us would exist forever." With his audience hushed, Carter continued: "But it did not stand forever. It crumbled and fell. And though the rubble has not yet been completely removed, it no longer separates us from one another, blighting the lives of those on both sides of it." That breakthrough came, Carter said, largely because Martin Luther King...
...distressed Anwar Sadat had told journalists that he was disappointed and embarrassed by Jimmy Carter's comments rejecting the concept of a Palestinian state on the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip. But after a 45-minute talk last week in Egypt's southern town of Aswan, the Egyptian and American Presidents once more proclaimed themselves in agreement. Sadat went so far as to say their views were "identical...
Nearly 300 scientists this week are beginning one of the most extraordinary surveys in the annals of U.S. geology. Under a $1.4 million program conducted jointly by the National Geodetic Survey, the U.S. Geological Survey and local authorities, 36 teams of specialists are fanning across Southern California with levels, gravity meters and other exotic scientific gear for three months of intensive measuring. Their mission: to study the gradual-and extremely puzzling-elevation of a large region centered around the small town of Palmdale (pop. 12,800) that has taken place recently in this seismically active area...
Studying 113 men with prostate cancer, researchers from the Southern California Permanente Medical Group and U.C.L.A. turned to the radioimmunoassay. which can detect incredibly small quantities of biological substances with the help of radioactive tracers. The results: they were able to identify the telltale phosphatase elevation in the blood of 33% of patients in the early, first stage of the disease. 79% of second-stage cases. 71% third stage and 92% of the cases in the fourth and final stage-when the disease is often far too advanced for any hope of cure. By contrast, they report...