Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After interviewing seven students who smoked marijuana at the University of Oregon, Miss Buchanan wrote an article under the banner headline: "Students Condone Marijuana Use," which estimated that 200-400 students at the University smoked pot. Lane County District Attorney William Frye subpoenaed the Senior co-ed to testify befort a grand jury, and demanded that she reveal her sources. After three refusals, County Judge William Leavy ordered her to stand trial in contempt of court. Miss Buchanan was convicted last Wednesday, but will appeal the decision and sentence to the Oregon Supreme Court...
SOCIALISM IN OUR COUNTRY, IN OUR TIME, droned one timeless banner stamped with a jaded peace dove. Though "fraternal guests" invited from 85 countries were unable to get U.S. visas, non-Communist newsmen were admitted for the first time-but only briefly and on condition that no pictures be taken of faces. Unfortunately, the gathering in Webster Hall looked more like a tintype from an early Dreiser novel than a revolutionary threat for the '60s. Most of the delegates were middle-aged to elderly whites, though there was a smattering of Negroes and a small youth contingent...
...staff to assure full coverage of his every move. Large crowds seemed equally intrigued by the visitor. Students carried him on their shoulders. At Jan Smuts Airport in Johannesburg, an Indian youth gave him an enthusiastic kiss ("Wrong sex," said Kennedy), and two coeds unfurled a banner proclaiming WE LOVE YOU BOBBY...
...then on April 18 a banner headline in the CRIMSON announced the start of the campaign to abolish that "organized vice racket," the tutoring schools. It seemed that between two-thirds and three-quarters of all undergraduates used the course notes obligingly sold by the "cram parlors" rather than going to the bother of taking their own. Further, the CRIMSON revealed that some of the schools had tried to bribe University officials in order to get class lists and other information...
...money and the plans for urban renewal; it has the interested liberals; and it also has a Negro population of workable size. Miller for one, would not like to see Boston fail to solve the problem of the Negro in the city. The republication of his Bay State Banner starting last Saturday, brings Boston one step closer to that solution...