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DIED. IMOGENE COCA, 92, wide-eyed, winsome comedian and Sid Caesar's co-star in the 1950s television classic Your Show of Shows; in Westport, Conn. Petite in stature but possessed of outsize energy, Coca won an Emmy in 1952 for her subtly satirical performance on the show, which aired live for 90 minutes on Saturday nights and during which Coca and Caesar, without the aid of cue cards, acted out skits lampooning marriage, everyday life and popular culture...
...Bell's employment at Harvard came in two stints. In the late 1950s, Bell worked on a predecessor project of the Harvard Institute for International Development. He then returned in 1981 as the Gamble professor of population sciences and international health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He took emeritus status in 1988, but continued to regularly come into work...
...However, Kermit Roosevelt's fame did not come through electoral politics, but through clandestine activities. As CIA chief in the Middle East in the 1950s, Kermit Roosevelt organized a successful coup to bring Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi to power in Iran and remove Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh...
...Historically, Harvard student organizations had been slow to accept women as members. The Crimson accepted women editors in the 1940s. Women have served on the board of the Advocate since the late 1950s and WHRB allowed women to join in 1960. The Harvard University Band had its first female members in 1969. And it took even longer for women to rise in the ranks of these groups...
...Members of the Class of 1976—born in the early 1950s, raised during the turbulent ’60s—found a world still coming to grips with itself...