Word: aids
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Bullhorns & Diapers. Abernathy would probably be happy to get so visible a location, since the main purpose of the campaign is to wrench the national conscience and prod Congress into granting greater aid to the 29,900,000 American poor. "We will stay until Congress deals with racial poverty," said Abernathy last week. It will be an expensive stay: merely to feed the demonstrators should cost upwards of $150,000 a day, and Abernathy's procurement list includes items as various as 300 bullhorns, 10,000 disposable diapers and 250,000 nails. Day-care centers for demonstrators' infants...
...before they can be fully assembled for offensive use. The South Vietnamese army has invaded the A Shau valley, an almost untouchable redoubt of Communist troops since they overran a U.S. Special Forces base there in 1966. Other allied units are positioned for "mobile defense" to come to the aid of any city or cities that the enemy tries to hit again...
Although Methodism has been slow to involve itself in contemporary social issues, m recent years politically-minded activists have attained increasing influence in both the Methodist Church and the E.U.B. Delegates to the uniting conference approved a resolution to raise $20,000,000 during the next year for aid to the poor...
...committing ourselves to getting a substantially higher number of qualified black students," Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, said yesterday, after a meeting with representatives of the Ad Hoc Committee...
...ended all publicity stunts isn't even mentioned by Sack. At 1:00 a.m. on the morning of last May 4, 15,000 students began to collect outside the Sack Savoy for a 4 a.m. preview of Casino Royale--free, if you wore a "super sleuth trenchcoat." With the aid of police, a bona fide riot broke out. Meanwhile the theatre's assistant manager, having filled the 2,800 seats to capacity, began rolling the film early. He later told police, "They were fighting in the aisles every time someone left his seat. [About 1, small fires broke out under...