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...frisbee sailed slowly over the head of Margaret R. Cowperthwaite '79 and settled down next to the cot where she was sleeping. Across Radcliffe Yard, the shouts from an all-out game of badminton awakened a half-dozen other sleepers. They sat up to watch the sunrise over Byerly Hall and the motley army of jobseekers parked in front of it. It was 5:30 on Tuesday morning, and the crowd knew that Byerly's doors would not open for another three hours...
...threatening the Atomic Energy Commission: "I think that the AEC must be made to realize that I am dedicated to the minimum request made of them [to delay the explosion]. That if they do not grant it, I will ally myself completely with the all-out anti-bomb faction throughout the entire U.S. That this group had only been waiting for a strong leader and I am ready to dedicate the rest of my life and every cent I possess in a complete no quarter fight to outlaw all nuclear testing of every kind and everywhere...
Although Carter started late, he is making an all-out effort to win. Because of his weak organization-only last week did workmen finish installing telephones in his Milwaukee headquarters-Carter must depend on the bandwagon effect of his previous victories. Last week, in his first appearance in the state this year, Carter drew large, enthusiastic crowds at stops in Milwaukee, Madison and Green...
...vague on issues. "You can't nail him down," complains Clarence Burns, a Baltimore city councilman. "What is he going to do about unemployment?" (Carter has refused to support the Humphrey-Hawkins bill that would require the Government to reduce unemployment to less than 3%, but he vows an all-out attack on unemployment.) Still, as Burns concedes, "there's something about him that appeals to black people...
Most have been floated by study group after study group for 15 years, only to be sunk repeatedly by opposition from politically powerful commercial banks. The American Bankers Association has vowed "total, all-out opposition" to the Financial Institutions Act too, as had to be expected: its members would get little out of the bill except stronger competition and closer supervision...