Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With regard to Mr. Howard's charge that I am a "pawn" of some reactionary forces at Harvard, he really doesn't know what he's talking about and ought to hold his peace. And Mr. Howard's additional charge that my views have "undue weight" and are "accepted as authoritative on black issues at Harvard" is sheer figment of his imagination...
...anti-white and anti-Semitic statements to come from the black community, "Cut out, stay out, stay off, shut up. get off our backs," reads one, "or your relatives in the Middle East will find themselves giving benefits to raise money to help you get out from the terrible weight of an enraged black community." On TV, Shanker said that his union was trying to prevent "a Nazi takeover of the schools...
Apart from the payola controversy, the big news of the week was the almost monotonous parade of Americans to the victory pedestal. There were elev en boxing weight classes in Mexico City, and U.S. boxers won medals in seven of them. In yachting. New Orleans' Buddy Friedrichs and San Diego's Lowell North won gold medals. In shooting, Nebraska's Gary Anderson, a 29-year-old Army lieutenant, scored 1,157 out of a possible 1,200 points to win the free-rifle competition and break his own world record. Competing in his fourth Olympics, Connecticut...
Ferried to the Essex by helicopter, the three heavily bearded astronauts walked unsteadily, obviously weary after their long confinement. But NASA doctors reported that despite colds, loss of weight (Schirra 41 Ibs., Cunningham 8, Eisele 10), and muscles weakened by inactivity, the three space travelers were in good health -and in better humor than they had been for most of the week. The irritability that they had displayed during exchanges with ground controllers, said the doctors, was a natural consequence of long confinement, a rather humdrum flight and troublesome head colds. NASA's Paul Haney had another explanation: "Something...
...virtue of his color, Kilson's opinions have been accepted as authoritative on black issues at Harvard. I believe Kilson is using this fact to give his opinions undue weight. This sort of misuse of his racial image is at least as "disgustingly anti-intellectual" as the alleged demand that only blacks should teach courses such as Social Science 5. It should be clear from this point forward that Kilson's views are not particularly black--he seems to have much more in common with his old-line colleagues in the Government department than with us. Jeffrey P. Howard...