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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long and frustrating history. For ten years, under three Presidents, the war in Viet Nam had dragged on, ever more menacing to the security of South Viet Nam, ever more increasing the U.S. commitment of men and materiel, of blood and treasure. Over the years, every other type of regular-and irregular-diplomatic approach to Hanoi had been tried-and had failed. In the last year alone, more than 200 private contacts had been initiated. Not one had produced a perceptible nod from the other side. The President and his aides have made dozens of speeches, talked to hundreds...
Segrest was arrested, and District Attorney Tom Young described him as a "very quiet type of man" who had no record of Negro baiting. Young insisted that the murder was "not a civil rights homicide," pointed out that Younge was holding a golf club in his hand when shot. Tuskegee students noisily disagreed; groups as large as 1,500 marched through Tuskegee singing freedom songs and demanding the death penalty for Segrest. Civil rights leaders asked Lyndon Johnson to send federal marshals to protect Negro lives and rights, and Mayor Charles M. Keever, calling the situation "very dangerous," said that...
...Maxey boys. Arguing that "no hardbound text was ever thrust into a boy's hip pocket," he has thrown out such books, replaced them with paperbacks ranging from James Bond to Erich Fromm. When he first arrives at the school, each boy can select two from drugstore-type racks, keep them or exchange them with other boys -and no one tries to keep track of them. Fader also advises constant practice in writing. Boys are encouraged to keep a daily journal, which is never corrected for grammar or spelling, only checked to see if the boy is trying...
...this type of program is becoming almost standard for many of the nation's better colleges. But eight years ago, almost no systematic attempt was being made to reach these kinds of students. It was then that Harvard approached the head of an Eastern foundation who was personally interested in helping disadvantaged students. Harvard had a plan in mind, but had to be tactful in approaching the prospective donor, Briggs recalls...
Brew described the remains as "overlapping circles of postholes that were formed by the butts of upright branches used to make the shelter." The prehistoric huts were probably "much like a modern Apache wikiup, a type of Indian hut used in the West," Brew said...