Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Distance and cultural differences, Peterson said, are deterrents to spontaneous applications by Chicanos-most of whom live in the West and Southwest-and make it difficult to attract strong candidates to Harvard...
...able to participate without fear of arrest. Demonstrators will allow themselves to be arrested without resisting, unless the police attack the protestors. In such an event, individuals would be free to defend themselves or not, as each individual or group sees fit. Organizers of the demonstration hope to attract 10,000 people, which seems to be a fairly realistic assessment of the anti-war mood in Boston...
Calling their action "Dewey Canyon Three," the Vietnam Veterans group hopes to attract 5000 Vietnam veterans to Washington April 19-23 to conduct mock search-and-destroy missions and bivouac on Capitol Hill. In Boston, the local branch of the radi-cal veterans' group plans to invade Government Center tomorrow morning to demonstrate to city officials and passersby the kinds of tactics used against civilian populations in Vietnam...
...furor also stirred up the recently quiescent peace movement. Leaders of a three-week springtime peace offensive centering around May Day hope to attract as many as 500,000 protesters to rallies in Washington. More than 400 student-body presidents and college editors last week sent a letter to the President assailing his Vietnamization policy, arguing that "changing the color of the corpses does not end the war." The editors of four of the nation's leading Catholic and Protestant journals prepared a joint editorial charging that "American military might is repeating the crucifixion of Christ" in Viet...
...riots and forums are centered about the Cinema Committee. I don't know how verite his depiction is: it certainly does not jive with the strike film that was actually produced. And it is doubtful that anyone agreed to let a trench-coated Hollywoodian develop a love-storyline to attract international filmgoers (one which is, supposedly, scrapped...