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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stepped-Up War. All week, both Washington and Hanoi had jockeyed for a favorable position. North Viet Nam's President Ho Chi Minh accused the U.S. of talking about "peace negotiations while stepping up the war," then went ahead and did the same thing. Five days before the talks were to start, Communist forces attacked 122 South Vietnamese cities and military installations, concentrating chiefly on Saigon. But the offensive was markedly punchless, especially by contrast with last winter's Tet strikes (see THE WORLD...
...greater at home than in the ghetto, since it is there that racism has put down its deepest roots. No Negro is ever going to change white attitudes by sodding some white suburban lawn-but white society is sensitive and susceptible to pressure from its own kind. "The basic thing the individual should do is start to change the institutions in which he is involved," says Thomas F. Pettigrew, Harvard social psychologist. "You change people's attitudes by changing their behavior first. And you change behavior by changing institutions-the institutions that require us to behave in racist ways...
...movie, well, something had to be done. So Reeve flew to Nairobi, bought the old girl for $750, now plans to refurbish her for $10,000 more and haul the craft around the country to help raise money for the East African Cancer Fund. "It's a fun thing to do," explains Reeve, "and I've bought a legend...
...reported. When a normally lefthanded rat was forced to learn to use his right paw to get food out of a tube, cells in the most highly developed part of the brain (the cortex) produced a special kind of RNA as well as proteins. A similar thing happened in goldfish that were forced to learn a new kind of swimming by having buoyant plastic foam stuck under their chins by Dr. Victor Shashoua of M.I.T. Fish that Dr. Shashoua made work just as hard swimming against a current, but without learning anything new, did not produce extra...
...think the best approach in addressing this topic is to assess conceptually what the Black Experience has been. Such assessment is, I think, difficult. For one thing, what contemporaneous yardstick does one use to define the historical limits--the starting point and the context of the Black Experience? How do we decide what is meaningful and valuable in the social, cultural, and political realities of the Black Experience...