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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the blanket of official silence, there is one publication in Russia that records the protests and persecution of the country's dissenters. It is a small, often tattered, clandestine newsletter called Chronicle of Current Events. Despite constant KGB (secret police) efforts to stamp it out, the Chronicle, which usually runs no more than 40 typescript pages, circulates among intellectuals in major Soviet cities with the speed of a brush fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Notes from the Underground | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...richest museum in the nation, the Metropolitan still must face a deficit this year. A major drive for capital funds is expected to follow its current centennial celebrations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS BRIEFS | 11/26/1969 | See Source »

...current controversy over painters' helpers has starkly outlined one of the major problems facing Harvard as a large-scale employer: How can it move blacks and members of other minority groups up from their traditional, low-level jobs, to the higher-paying jobs held almost exclusively by whites in the past...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Brass Tacks Two Views on the Painters' Helpers | 11/26/1969 | See Source »

This is not to say that every white worker, or foreman. or union official, is "racist." but merely that black workers here are to some extent-and more important, probably strongly feel themselves to be-in an alien. white world. The current SDS campaign has denied that the attitudes of white workers have anything to do with the situation of the painters' helpers. White workers. SDS claims have no objections to promoting the painters' helpers at one swoop. If so, it would appear to be a small miracle: that white workers-particularly the Irish Bostonians who are a large part...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Brass Tacks Two Views on the Painters' Helpers | 11/26/1969 | See Source »

...workers would be continued hiring of unskilled blacks in some sort of "helper" or "trainee" category and adoption of a formal training program to move them up in the job levels. Thus. a black could get a job at Harvard with little difficulty, then receive formal training (not the current informal training or lack of it) to move up as if on an escalator. Basically. this is the idea behind the Federal MA-5 program, for which Harvard is currently completing an application, and to which unions seem agreeable, at least in principle...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Brass Tacks Two Views on the Painters' Helpers | 11/26/1969 | See Source »

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