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...angry farmers spoke of a "tractor march" on Washington. Across the Midwest, the 250,000-member National Farmers Union planned to boycott auto and farm-equipment makers because of high equipment prices. In 25 states, farmers who earlier this month were selling off some of their breeding stock to avert a threatened oversupply of pigs and calves, last week began dumping milk to drive up prices by 20 a quart...
Princeton trailed Cornell, 15-12, going into the final match. But the Tigers' heavyweight Ollie Kenen--the man who won the Harvard meet for them--pulled a dramatic pin to avert a three-team tie for the title among Harvard, Cornell, and Princeton...
...next day, however, a group of private citizens and representatives of social work and civil rights organizations announced a proposed boycott of the Boston Schools suggested for June 18. The School Committee met with leaders of the proposed boycott to try and avert it, but negotiations broke off when the School Committee, under Hicks's leadership, refused to sign a statement admitting the existence of "de facto segregation" in the Boston public schools. According to one Boston political observer this is where the trouble began. "In their insistence on a de facto segregation statement the NAACP failed to realize...
Goldberg is not so erudite or engaging as Dean Acheson or McGeorge Bundy. But he is probably the most astute negotiator who has ever served as Secretary of Labor. President Kennedy once dispatched Goldberg to New York City to avert an imminent strike by the musicians in the Metropolitan Opera. According to press reports, Goldberg almost single-handedly molded a settlement in time to let the show...
...passion, a Jamesian conflict of cultures. The Ne gro revolution, at once violent and vital, agonizing and altruistic, could provide such a theme. Novelist Ann Fairbairn tries to tackle it in this ambitious, achingly overwritten epic. The result is a compelling argument for instant Black Power-if only to avert a sequel...