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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said, viciously drop-kicking a beer can out the window and onto Plympton Street. "Eight years in this town and you're dead. Make that six years. It's the same thing. The same thing happens. This place is just like any small town in Kansas. The same people belong to the Country Club as belong to the Kiwanis and the Thursday Evening" Literary Society. Spend a couple of years in a place like that and you think you're really king of the rock. You know everyone in town and everyone knows you and you think you're really...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: The Vagabond | 6/12/1957 | See Source »

Unorganized employees at the chemical laboratories and at the Arnold Arboretum will vote Thursday on representation by the local, and 236 University janitors who now belong to the HUERA will vote on June 18. The local has also petitioned for elections among members of the Groundsmen's and Truckmen's Associations...

Author: By Fred E. Arnold, | Title: HUERA Head Says AFL Misleads Personnel Here | 6/4/1957 | See Source »

...seats. Some 35 security officers and twelve judges, along with uncounted captains and majors, resigned their government posts to run, a formidable act of faith considering that Nasser's "National Union" will not decide until some time this month which if any of the hopefuls belong on the one and only ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Going to the People | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...compare the students he had met at Virginia with his own generation. "They are more intellectually curious; they are more daring," he carefully summarized. "But they have more and more pressures to be submergent to a mass. The young man is tricked into not realizing the pressures to belong to a mass, a group which wants to do his thinking for him, give him his ideas." Rebel Faulkner's final advice: "The young man must struggle against the mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Resist the Mass | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...organizers have built their campaign around charges that the company union has represented its members ineffectively. As a result, they claim, the University has fallen behind MIT (whose employees belong to Local 254) in wages, working conditions, and fringe benefits...

Author: By Fred E. Arnold, | Title: A 'Cordial Invitation' for Harvard Employees | 5/28/1957 | See Source »

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