Word: womack
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...technical victory for the radicals. The Project, funded by the defense department, was designed to use computers for basic research into social science methodology. Radicals charged that the product of the computer research would be used for counter-insurgency operations. Liberal members of the Faculty joined the protest. John Womack Jr., assistant professor of History, said, "I suspect that the people getting the most use out of the Project will be the Defense Department, and at this moment in American politics, I don't trust Defense to make the use of it that I would like...
...Social Sciences, H. Stuart Hughes, Gurney Professor of History and Political Sciences, and Archie C. Epps, assistant dean of Harvard College, were re-elected. Doris H. Kearns, assistant professor of Government, was elected to replace John Womack Jr., assistant professor of History, who will be on leave next year...
Robert Lowell, Emerson Lecturer on English Literature, and John Womack Jr., assistant professor of History, were also nominated for National Book Awards...
Robert Lowell, Emerson Lecturer on English Literature, was nominated for his poetry collection, Notebook 1967-68. John Womack Jr., assistant professor of History, was nominated for his book, Zapata and the Mexican Revolution...
...Womack's book is about Emiliano Zapata, a guerrilla leader and agrarian reformer of the 1910-1920 period in Mexico. Other contenders in the History and Biography category are Dean Acheson's Present at the Creation and Townsend Hoopes's The Limits of Intervention...