Word: american
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many American cities, however, Lindsay would have to face a run-off. New York, which has retained partisan municipal elections in the face of a trend away from them, requires only a plurality at all stages of the event. The Lindsay camp has made much of the fact that Procaccino could not have won a run-off within his own Democratic Party-former Mayor Robert Wagner would have been a strong favorite in such a contest...
...Such action is a necessity if we are ever to end the war in Vietnam and American imperialism in general," the statement added. "It is not sufficient to have peaceful demonstrations such as the October 15 moratorium... the people who control this country... will only stop the war and imperialism when it is easier for them to do this than to continue. We can bring this day closer... by raising the cost of the war at home...
During an address he gave to representatives of the American Association of Medical Colleges, Brewster spoke in response to the charges of Barry Rand, a third-year medical student...
...former chairman of the Afro-American Student Union at the "B" School, I am quite familiar with both the attitudes and machinations of Hokanson and his conservative sidekicks who have served as the official non-voice of student body. They seem either unwilling or incapable of providing the leadership which an increasingly activist and even "liberal"-if one can use that word-M. B. A. student faction is demanding. Apparently unwilling to concede that more and more M. B. A. students (especially black and chicano students) are determined to put an end to the Business School's splendid and serene...
...praise and support of all students who are disgusted with the status-quo orientation of many members of the SA. In my opinion, which I admit is probably a minority opinion, those students who circulated and signed the anti-Vietnam petition represent the only real hope for the entire American capitalist system. For if they can take a stand on Vietnam, perhaps one day when they are in positions of corporate power and influence they will also speak up unequivocally and act decisively on other controversial issues which are having a profound effect upon American society...