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Coercive protests may, in some cases, be justified. When protestors sat-in at lunch counters throughout the South in the 1950s and ’60s to protest segregation, they were clearly justified. But legitimate coercive protest can only be founded upon a narrow range of the most critical issues. Improving the wages of Harvard’s lowest-paid workers, while a laudable and important goal, is an example that does not meet this threshold...
...While 1950s Radcliffe students contended for the “Miss Radcliffe” title, the woman or man who wins this year’s competition will be the first ever to be crowned “Miss Harvard...
...hard to remember now, but at one time the British royal family was very sensitive about scandal. This was before Charles convened his triangular marriage with Diana and Camilla, before Andrew and Fergie went their separate wiggy ways, before Prince Harry discovered pot. To be precise, it was the 1950s, in the still lingering aftermath of the abdication of Edward VIII, when the young Queen Elizabeth II was gamely reinforcing the credibility--meaning the dullness--of the throne and her younger sister Margaret was straining at the leash...
DIED. JEAN PATCHETT, 75, popular fashion model who was featured on more than 40 magazine covers, including Vogue, in the 1950s; of emphysema; in La Quinta, Calif. Irving Penn, who made Patchett famous with a moody 1949 photograph that showed her sitting in a cafe chewing on her pearls, called her an "American goddess in Paris couture...
...John Kendrew; in Cambridge, England. Perutz's work laid the foundation for human genome and disease research. DIED. CLAUDE BROWN, 64, author of Manchild in the Promised Land, which closely follows his own experiences growing up among killers, prostitutes and drug addicts on the streets of Harlem in the 1950s; in New York City. Published in 1965 during the height of the civil rights movement, Brown's stark novel sold four million copies. DIED. ANI PACHEN, 69, courageous Tibetan resistance leader who led 600 men in a guerrilla war against the invading Chinese; in Dharamsala, India. Inheriting the leadership role...