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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This recent "teach-in" so corrupts any reasonable definition of teaching that only the most servile mind old accept such an outrageous misnomer. If it is the best we can offer, then the students involved might better spend their time swallowing goldfish and stuffing phone booths. Denaid W. Riegle, Jr. Harvard Business School

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Teach-In" | 7/19/1965 | See Source »

...Angeles, Democratic Mayor Sam Yorty has turned down OEO demands that he accept representatives of minority groups, private welfare agencies and "the poor" on his anti-poverty board, which administers the program. To do so, says Yorty, would be to give nonelected private citizens the power to determine public policy and spend public money. Anti-poverty officials in Washington, who under the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act are authorized to channel federal funds to private groups, are withholding $22 million in funds from Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poverty: Progress, Protest & Politics | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

...Francisco, a similar snarl exists between poverty groups and Democratic Mayor John F. Shelley, who asked, regarding demands that he accept representatives of "the poor": "What if they elect a Communist or a criminal?" Last week the OEO announced the approval of $1,800,000 for the Bay City, but the federal funds will not be handed over until there is greater representation of minorities on Shelley's anti-poverty council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poverty: Progress, Protest & Politics | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

...their underwear and start singing a cigarette add ("The Breeze at night is just as good as the Breeze in the morning") one certainly gets a fine sense of trivia. Shortly we discover (gasp of Recognition) that the play is really about the younger generation and growing up and accepting responsibility. Tom and Teena, we find, live unmarriedly in midtown Manhattan in a messy apartment displaying anti-bourgeois scorn for neatly preserved possessions (their sofa is an automobile seat) and a flair for camp (wall cartoons of a trotting Flash Gordon and of Batman holding a tiger and wheezing "Whew...

Author: By John Williams, | Title: Family Things, Etc | 7/15/1965 | See Source »

...would accept an official offer, Cox replied, "I consider it seriously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: May Return to | 7/15/1965 | See Source »

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