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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet Union and restoring civil rights. Among the ten signers was former Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, arrested last month for anti-Soviet activities; Grigorenko's name was signed by his wife. Other signers included Pyotr Yakir, who has spent 17 years in a concentration camp, and whose father, a general, was executed during Stalin's purges of the Red army, and Leonid Petrovsky, whose grandfather was once chairman of the region of the Ukraine. Both Yakir and Petrovsky have lost jobs as historians; Grigorenko has not worked since his ouster from the army in 1964. Excerpts from their...
...representatives of the Communist parties, whose ideal is the construction of the just society: Can it really be that such an obvious restoration of Stalinism in our country -the head of Communist society -does not alarm you? We call upon you to examine the total seriousness of the situation and do everything that your conscience and reason tell you -everything that is in your power -so that the ominous shadow of Stalin will not darken our future...
...least three Fellows--Thomas Nelson Perkins, Charles A, Coolidge and Francis H. Burr--have been partners in Ropes & Gray. From 1954 to 1965, when Coolidge retired, he and Burr served as Fellows at the same time. Burr also sit on the Board of Directors of State Street Investment Corporation, whose relationship with Harvard's treasure, Gorge Bennett, is discussed below; Bennett, Burr, and Coolidge all served as directors of the New England Electric System...
...graduate students whose bursar's cards were taken at the Paine Hall demonstration refused to tell GSAS dean J. Petersen Elder whether they heard warnings to leave the hall and whether they actually remained in the building after Dean Glimp told them to go. The students said they were resisting Elder's attempts to "single us out for punishment...
Jonathan Strong is not so sure. Loneliness and self and boredom yes. But maybe no banquet over there where the titans and the adults live. His narrators do encounter a few older people who give them some cause for hope. There is Supperberger, a composer whose music has affected the story's young narrator. If Supperberger has succeeded, then maybe it is possible that art is a salvation...