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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meaning and opportunity in their own skills, they find both reassurance and models in Faculty and graduate students. Because Harvard is now attracting the most successful of high school graduates, it is also drawing people for whom academic success is important, and for whom education is still an uncertain sort of affair. College ceases to be a means to an end and becomes an end itself, setting an academic trajectory for life...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: The Vale of Academe | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

...President, it's time for you to get tough," said Stevenson to John F. Kennedy. "I recommend that at your news conference this evening, you tell the U.S. people and the world that we are ready to oppose any unilateral intervention in the Congo, and in no uncertain terms. I'm presumptuous enough to have some language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The United Nations: The Bear's Teeth | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...Congo's internal affairs. Most of all, there seemed to be no end in sight under the present ground rules. For too long, U.N. troops, operating under fuzzy, limited orders, had stood listlessly by as the Congolese shot and stabbed one another; often the U.N.'s uncertain policy had prolonged more arguments than it settled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The United Nations: The Bear's Teeth | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...investment. "Without that machine we wouldn't be in business," he says. One of the most ambitious snow jobs is the result of $225,000 spent by Don Soviero, a former New York attorney, for equipment to cover 36 acres on Massachusetts' Mt. Bousquet, an area of uncertain snows. Says Soviero: "While everyone else is crying, we have never lost money,'' though his artificial snow costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Snow Job | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...pulled a muscle in the hurdles. After winning the broad jump at 22 ft., 8 in., Blodgett staggered to a second behind Bill Hatch in the hurdles, but was unable to pole vault. He definitely will be out of the Holy Cross meet, and his future is uncertain...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Crimson Track Team Tops Army, 57 1/2-51 1/2, on Victory in Final Relay | 2/13/1961 | See Source »

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