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Cowboys & Indians. Returning to Harvard as a professor, Schlesinger proved to his own satisfaction that he would never be an inspirational orator. But students came to his lectures to hear what he had to say, not how he said it, and they came in greater numbers than to any other...
One Mistake. Strange, a gas-station attendant with an arrest record for assault and weapons offenses, was accused of being the trigger man in the July 15 murder of Willie Brewster, 38, a Negro. Brewster belonged to no civil rights organizations, walked no picket lines, enjoyed a reputation as a...
This tendency to defy established un ion leadership is caused partly by a kind of anticolonialism on the part of locals that want to play a bigger role, partly by the political and technological challenges - such as automation - that have created a climate of discontent in U.S. unions. To many...
They run short of water; the coolie offers his flask to his master; and the Merchant, ever fearful of the uppity lower classes, shoots him--only to be acquitted by the Authorities. Ergo, the rule that the underling must want to attack his employer, and the employer cannot be expected...
Girls at M.I.T. go back to 1871, when an uppity Vassar grad applied to study chemistry. The faculty let her in, but carefully kept her name (Ellen Swallow) off the rolls. She wound up on the faculty, and in 1883 the whole place went coed-turning out such alumnae as...