Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your story on oldtime fiddlin' [April 26], I heartily agree with the judge that bluegrass and rock 'n' roll is ruining the oldtime music. My father being an old-time fiddle champion, I was raised up on that kind of music, but the hokum that's allowed at some of these contests is far from the original music. I have been a qualified national judge in some nine states west of the Mississippi River and have judged some of the best fiddlers out this way. It's my belief unless this bluegrass and rock...
...July call is the lowest since the 11,400 of April, 1967. Draft calls rose sharply at the start of this year because so many men called in the Vietnam buildup two years ago were completing their compulsory service. That cycle has now been completed...
Over the weekend, Kirk said that a tripartite committee of students, faculty, and administration would be in complete charge of punishments for the more than 700 students involved in disturbances that have tied up the university since April...
...MONDAY, APRIL 29 -- The "Majority Coalition" (read: jocks) has cordoned off Low and are trying to starve the demonstrators out. We decide to break the blockade. We plan tactics on a blackboard and go, shaking hands with those staying behind as though we might not be back. There are 30 of us with three cartons of food. We march around Low, making our presence known, and spontaneously and at the wrong tactical place the blacks we have in front jump into the jock line. I go charging through the gap with my box of grapefruit and quickly become upon...
...roots level of ward politics. Peter A. Gagliardi '68, for example, recently won elections to the three-man school committee and to the ten-man Democratic town committee in Athol, Massachusetts. A more striking case, however, was the Democratic ward committee election that occurred in Cambridge last primary day, April 29. Four college students, one of them a Harvard senior, headed a 12-member slate that toppled the local cronies of State Representative Timothy Hickey. The Hickey group held control of Ward 9 for a dozen years...