Word: aids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Wolfe...
...tendency among Chavez' strikers to split the world into rich and poor has strained relations between the United Farm Workers and their sister AFL-CIO unions. In 1965, Chavez' National Farm Workers Association joined the AFL-CIO simply because it could not survive without large-scale financial aid. There is no question that a $5000 monthly contribution by the United Auto Workers has kept the Farm Workers above water. But, as Munoz puts it, many of the farmworkers feel that "the man who makes $50 a day cannot ever understand the man who makes...
John Cogdell, the financial aid director, said in an interview that many students who needed financial help, however, were not seeking it out. On their original applications only about one percent of the students had requested aid, as opposed to 10 to 15 percent in most state schools...
...staff, he said, were doing all they could to erase misconceptions that students might have about aid (many thought, for instance, of scholarship money as handouts similar to welfare, and felt that by taking loans, they would be in debt to "the man" for life). Cogdell said that he expected a big influx in aid applications in the first couple of months of the year...
...final instrument for bringing the Word were the Acid Tests ("Can you pass the Acid Test?"), mixed-media happenings at which LSD was served diluted in Kool Aid). The just-born Grateful Dead would make music. There were plenty of things to play with, like fingerpaints or day-glo, movies to watch, strobe lights, and Pranksters directing the show...