Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than 2200 undergraduates are participating in the fast, which will end after lunch today. An estimated $3500 rebate will be sent to the American Friends Service Committee for medical aid in Vietnam...
...hard to think of any demonstrations that have directly affected American policies in Viet Nam and unlike the march on Washington, the fast has not managed even to create the illusion that it could. But in its quiet way, the fast will work to repair the incalculable damage the United States has done in Southeast Asia...
...displeasure of the ECAC, and consequently of the NCAA, with Yale is actually no more than its reflected bitterness with the AAU with whom it has struggled for several years over control of American amateur athletics...
Previously, the dispute had primarily been confined to track, where one organization would frequently prohibit its members from participating in a meet sanctioned by the other. But last summer the struggle broke out anew over sanctioning of American amateur participation in Israel's Maccabiah games, somewhat of a Jewish Olympics...
Langer expressed interest in playing for the American basketball team, received Yale's permission, and performed despite NCAA warnings that the move would cost him his collegiate eligibility. That briefly is the history of the crisis...