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...third-ever meeting Monday night. HCSL members agreed to back the plan of the Divinity School Peace Group and organize the armband drive in their respective schools. Divinity School students will provide the armbands for Commencement exercises at each of the schools. A1 J. Saix, a member of Div School Student Association and the peace group, said yesterday...
Through a gulley and up a rise: almost instantly the broken terrain overcame the coherence of strategy. I could see one of my team members, then none. Then a figure appeared in a clearing 15 yds. away, wearing a red armband, firing at a target I could not see. I shot, heard the figure say "Eccch, you got me," in a conversational tone and saw a yellow stain from my pellet on his shirt. Feeling quick and clever, I ran on in a crouch. In a stand of small trees, too skinny for good cover, a red player...
Patrick feels betrayed by the new generation. He had worn a red armband of protest on his graduation gown, renounced his earning potential and set off to join the hippies or become Bob Dylan. The way he sees it, he went out on a limb to save the world, and the world came along and cut down the tree to make more paper for Playboy and Mademoiselle...
...care much? This campus, for instance, has seen huge protests against oppression in South Africa and Central America. Hundreds wore green ribbons in the wake of the slayings in Atlanta, and hundreds more will wear green and white sashes to Commencement. But almost no one wore a black armband the day Bobby Sands died...
...delegates who had split bitterly on other issues. Exulted Liz Carpenter, leader of ERAmerica, the group spearheading the amendment ratification drive: "We can no longer be accused of being a middle-class white women's cause." New Yorker Letty Cottin Pogrebin recalled seeing a black delegate wearing an orange armband in support of lesbian rights, a button favoring abortion and a pro-ERA button. Originally, the delegate had worn only one insignia, that backing the ERA. Said Pogrebin: "She was the best example of the progress of those three days in Houston...