Word: beers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nodded. "Well, that's fine, ," he said, clapping me on the shoulder. in Montgomery, we ate most of our the College Inn, a Negro cafe owned by young couple who work a 16-hour day. They worship Dr. King and befriended us immediately. One evening we were drinking beer there and discussing the prospective Selma-to-Montgomery freedom march. A middle-aged Negro, who had occupied another table, rose to leave. As he passed our table, he leaned into the conversation and muttered, "Go ahead and march, but look out. That's all, just look...
...night last fall, two Chicago cops heard a passer-by yell that two "crazy men" were around the corner. The crazy men turned out to be a couple of tipsy young Puerto Ricans; the cops drew their pistols and ordered one of the youths to drop the broken beer bottle he was carrying. According to the cops, the bottle carrier answered by yelling, "Come and get it, coppers!" In the dust-up that followed, he slashed Patrolman Thomas De Sutter's face. De Sutler, who was also accidentally shot in the foot by his partner, Patrolman Raymond Howard...
...cops, and state legislators angrily talked impeachment. But Judge Leighton, a Negro, a noted former criminal lawyer, and a magna Harvard Law graduate, stood his ground. He insisted that "a policeman has no right to pull a gun unless he knows a felony is being committed." Carrying a broken beer bottle is no crime, said Leighton. Besides, "How do we know that these men, who are unable to speak English, said what these officers say they said?" Ruled Judge Leighton: "The right to resist unlawful arrest is a phase of self-defense...
...Group 1 for the first time. In 1936 Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. 38 wrote a laudable sophomore essay and won a Ferguson. Walter Jackson Bate '39 won a Bowdoin in 1942 for an essay on "A Rejection of Intensity: Prosodic Development of Keats from May to September, 1819." Samuel Beer also won $300 in 1939 for his "Appetite and Reason: A Humanistic Theory of Ethics...
According to reliable sources, some of Meyerson's suggestions will deal with student discipline. In the "four-letter word" case, the Berkeley faculty reportedly could not decide which of its two committees had jurisdiction. One group is supposed to handle "all student cases involving sex and beer," while the other deals with discipline in campus political disturbances...