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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cold, cloudy November night following a resounding Harvard football loss to Princeton, McCarthy spoke before thousands of cheering supporters outside the Hotel Continental...

Author: By Robert M. Krim, | Title: Students and Presidential Politics | 6/13/1968 | See Source »

...very active METCO program, bussing ghetto blacks to the all-white wealthy suburban school, is equally controversial. One of the three black residents of the town, Mrs. Betty Powell, spoke at the school committee meeting, saying that the man sitting directly behind had advised, "If you don't like it, why don't you go back to Africa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley High School Engulfed By Anger Of Threatened Parents | 6/12/1968 | See Source »

About 75 Harvard students spent their vacations cutting wood at Sandwich and Waltham to help ease the fuel shortage. Government experts spoke in Sanders Theatre on food conservation, and complaints about the meals served in Mem Hall and the Student Union lost much of their traditional passion...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Many Problems Confronted The Class of '18 | 6/11/1968 | See Source »

...suspect was immediately taken into custody by Los Angeles police, reportedly advised of his rights to counsel, and interrogated. Shortly after 6 a.m., Los Angeles Police Chief Thomas Reddin told reporters that the suspect had refused counsel, declined to give his name, and spoke only one word--"yes"--to an unspecified question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Robert Kennedy Shot | 6/5/1968 | See Source »

...greatest man since Franklin D. Roosevelt; I can find support for him in lower-middle-class, and particularly so-called backlash regions, in Boston. But again--we have McCarthy. I don't think this is just an idle, irrelevant distinction. It ties in with the estrangement I spoke of between the white upper-middle-class intellectual liberal, and even radical, community, and the very people whose lives they want changed, but changed from the distance of their analysis -- rather than through any real communion, the kind of communion that people like Agee and Simone Weil have talked about, the communion...

Author: By Marion E. Bodian, | Title: Robert Coles on Activism | 5/29/1968 | See Source »

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