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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Father Lepp's comments on second marriages for Catholics [July 22] follow very closely John Milton's views in his tract Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, published in 1643. Milton discusses the need for divorce so that man can be more content either with himself or with another: "And this doubtless is the reason of those lapses and that melancholy despair which we see in many wedded persons, though they understand it not, or pretend other causes because they know no remedy; and is of extreme danger. Therefore when human frailty surcharged is at such a loss, charity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 5, 1966 | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

Biology students and scientists will study animal behavior and the relationship of plants and animals to their environment at the Concord Field Station. This outdoor laboratory will consist of 700 acres in the Estabrook Woods in Concord and a separate tract of 70 acres in Bedford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $250,000 Grant Will Establish Wildlife Center | 8/2/1966 | See Source »

Projects like these cold not be undertaken without a tract of unspoiled land under University ownership. The wildlife center not only provides the laboratory, but it will also lure other accomplished biologists to Harvard. There are many people Harvard would like to appoint to the Faculty, Mayr explained, who have not been interested because "we didn't have the facilities for their work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $250,000 Grant Will Establish Wildlife Center | 8/2/1966 | See Source »

Although a leader in marine ecology, Harvard has lagged behind in the study of land animals. A number of other universities already have wildlife centers similar to the proposed Concord tract...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $250,000 Grant Will Establish Wildlife Center | 8/2/1966 | See Source »

...President got into motion by visiting Bethesda Naval Hospital to call on several ailing legislators-including Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, undergoing treatment for a urinary-tract infection. While there, he dropped in on Viet Nam casualties in the neuro-surgical ward. One young marine, Lance Corporal Virgil Bohler of Silsbee, Texas, had been there in October when Lyndon came by while recuperating from his gall-bladder operation. At that time, Bohler lay unconscious and near death with a bullet wound in his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Dissension Without Dissection | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

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