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DIED. NATHAN PUSEY, 94, president of Harvard who saw the university through the expansionist 1950s and '60s; in New York City. The Iowa-born Harvard alum created "need-blind" admissions and oversaw the near tripling of its administrative and teaching staff--including many women. He came under fire in 1969, when he called in police to oust from a campus building protesters from the radical Students for a Democratic Society. Pusey announced his retirement the next year...
Reading about the threat of smallpox [TERRORISM, Oct. 29], I was reminded of the risk of polio in the 1950s and '60s. Surely one of the greatest humanitarian efforts of the U.S. government was providing, free of charge, the little sugar cube that contained the Sabin oral immunization for polio. I remember going with my family to the local school auditorium and waiting our turn. My daughter was not even a toddler then, but old enough to enjoy that lump of sugar. What a blessing it was! Now we are confronted with a danger greater than polio, frightening because...
...paramount, as some current covers of Islamic Jihad magazines from Pakistan's Markaz Ad-Da'wah Wal Irshad (Center for Preaching) demonstrate. The Voice of Islam, left, is helpfully published in English, but even those not fluent in Urdu could get the gist of the magazines' tone from the 1950s B-movie graphics and the copious use of shadowy typefaces. Just in case, we have provided some translation as well...
Nathan M. Pusey ’28 was a traditionalist who led Harvard to reap the benefits of the peace and prosperity of the 1950s. But traditionalism gave way to paternalistic inflexibility as his administration ended amidst the violent climax of student protest in the turbulent 1960s...
Even during the 1950s, Pusey’s efforts were not without significant bumps...