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Word: specialize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stressed his administrative experience with his father and chiefly relied on what Fox called the "old Bill Bates approach." Bates, the district's last Congressman, proposed to cater to the individual needs of every voter. Saltonstall called this the "people-to-people approach." It meant promising special favors for the shoe, fishing, leather, and electronics industries that make up the economy of the North Shore. Such a strategy unwittingly wrote off the growing proportion of commuters who depend on jobs in Boston and not in the district. For these people, Saltonstall's appeal was not sufficiently broad...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: Brass TacksHarrington's Strange Majority | 10/8/1969 | See Source »

...that President Nixon urged the nation to "stand fast" on Vietnam, the Massachusetts Sixth District sent Michael J. Harrington, '58 to Congress. The election was regarded by many as a referendum on Vietnam. Political commentators pointed out that it marked the fourth defeat suffered by Republicans since January in special Congressional races...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: Brass TacksHarrington's Strange Majority | 10/8/1969 | See Source »

...formal Faculty vote would be the most effective way to make anti-war sentiment felt. Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee professor of Economics, said that there was a "terrible difference between laid special emphasis on the unique nation." Both would "do the same thing, but speaking as a Faculty or as a convoca-the second would be much weaker than the first...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Faculty Officially Condemns War, Passes Altered Moratorium Motion | 10/8/1969 | See Source »

Harvard has hired a special personnel officer to recruit and train black and Spanish-speaking people for jobs in the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New University Personnel Officer To Hire, Train Minority Workers | 10/8/1969 | See Source »

...First is an exhibit of the famous New Orleans pirate Jean Laffite. Laffite is standing life-size with an old New Orleans Hat Spanish cowboy hat on. His hair is human hair, imported from Central Europe, inserted one strand at a time with a special needle. His eyes are medical eyes imported from Germany. Laffite was a well-respected pirate who was promised a lot of money by the British Navy in return for his helping them to attack New Orleans in 1814. He double-crossed the British and helped the Americans. That won him a pardon from the President...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Welcome to the Dallas Wax Museum | 10/8/1969 | See Source »

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