Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miller, a 36-year-old Princetonian with a patrician and liberal background going back to the Revolutionary War, hedged on his crackdown-on-pushers stance even more. Although reluctant to push a pro-pot platform, Miller did say that the possession part of the law-for pot-was unenforceable. He said that he favors devoting a good deal of money to the non-criminal type of home rehabilitation for people addicted to the harder stuff...
...year ago, the button of the New England Resistance was a black hand styled. Omega on a white background. Omega stands for ohms in electricity which measures resistance, which, sometime after October 16, 1967, became the official insignia for draft resistance. I first put on my Omega button as I dropped my letter to Ramsey Clark with my draft cards into a red and blue box labelled "U. S. Mail." That was in San Diego, California last summer. That was when buttons meant more than they do now. They somehow told what was on your mind...
...revolution from the top is what it will take to tame the unions, Victor Grayson Hardie Feather may be just the man to bring it off. He has the name,* and the background. The son of a sometime furniture polisher and full-time pacifist, Feather was born in the milling town of Bradford and went to work filling flour sacks at 14. He worked nights on a local Socialist paper, where he used to talk politics with the publisher's daughter, who is now Minister of Employment and Productivity, Barbara Castle. At 29, choosing unionism "because I wanted...
...background of the case tends to reinforce this conclusion. This is, after all, the first time a faculty member has been demoted for political action since the McCarthy era, and the only tampering with contracts since that time aside from the dismissal of Timothy Leary in the early sixties. In addition, the Joint Committee did make a point of stating "We hope that the Corporation will make unequivocably clear that any such conduct by anyone holding a Corporation appointment will here after invariably be deemed grounds for immediate termination of that appointment...
...page report deals primarily with the moods and background of student unrest around the country and particularly at Harvard; however, it concludes that any recommendation for restructuring the University should come from a more representative, broadly based committee...