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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Agnew was assigned the task of appealing to the potential Wallace vote. He began the drive with the standard spiel on law and order, but as the weeks passed, he grew progressively more abrasive. At times, except for the accent, he might have been mistaken for Wallace himself, making use of such Wallace-like expressions as "phony intellectual." In the end, though Agnew may have hurt Nixon overall, he appears to have helped him win critically important Border states...
...Heyns' stand against political interference earned faculty support. His open-door policy of reasonable dialogue disarmed the dissidents and won broad student sympathy. His crackdown on the sit-in demonstrators pleased the regents without antagonizing the moderate majority of students. The radicals might yet find a way to use the unresolved Cleaver case to inflame the university. But the encouraging point of the restraint at Berkeley-reinforced by rejections of confrontation politics this fall at N.Y.U. and Columbia-may be a growing student awareness that change can be more quickly achieved by cooperating with tolerant administrators than by resorting...
Muhler's new decay preventive will not be sold over the counter. Since indiscriminate use of his potent fluoride formula could be damaging, it must be applied under the direction of a dentist or a dental hygienist. More than 1.5 million persons have tested the paste thus far. The results: a 40%-95% reduction in tooth decay over a three-year period, depending on whether or not a treated person also drinks fluoridated water regularly. In Viet Nam, 400,000 combat troops, who average only one brushing every 21 days, have taken the treatment. Two hundred thousand additional soldiers...
...unfamiliarity of black freshmen with the simple mechanics of a Harvard course, the manner in which material gradually unfolds, the reluctance to use any current material ("the bang-bang stuff") until the second term...
...use Professor Rosovsky's phrase, "a response to an emergency." And the limited but emotional war waged against it these past few weeks is perhaps important only to the extent that it affects the future of black-experience courses at Harvard...