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Atlanta University is the institution which W.E.B. DuBois had to leave at the start of the twentieth century. His radical critique of Negro education had cost the school the support of Northern philanthropists and DuBois decided that a political action group such as the National Association for Colored People would provide a more efficient framework in which to work for Negro advancement. With the departure of DuBois, Negro higher education fell almost totally under the influence of Booker T. Washington. Today the radicalism of DuBois finds its extension in SNCC (significantly, the SNCC Chairmanship is awarded annually to a student...
...Planning Board suggests that the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority purchase the land from the MTA and develop it through controlled private contractors. The report calls the sale of the Yards "the most important development of the Twentieth Century for Cambridge." It added that the Yards are "a land bank to be drawn upon only for blue chip investments...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Part 2 of "Ethiopia: The Lion and the Cross," includes an interview with Emperor Haile Selassie...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The Soviet Union's Lomonosov, the best-equipped and largest oceanographic vessel in the world, pipes aboard the cameras of CBS for a permitted look around. Also, the program shows the work of patrol planes keeping watch on Russian trawlers in the North Atlantic...
...brighter. This effect can be explained by an assumption that the rings are made of small particles, probably ice, and that the nearer ones cover the shadows that they cast on others. Cook and Franklin measured the rate of brightening with precise modern instruments and decided that about one-twentieth of the rings' volume is filled with particles of ice-fog that are about one one-thousandth of an inch in diameter. Only if they are arranged in a sheet less than 8 in. thick will those tiny bits of ice cover one another's shadows just enough...