Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When two years went by without a peep from the lbis, a classified ad appeared in the Crimson on October 5, 1963: "IBIS. Local Bird lover seeks large metal one last seen stop building on Bow Street. Send information to Crimson Box 3447. Confidential. No questions aked...
...whereabouts of the cod remained unknown for over a week while evidence piled up against Harvard culprits and eventually pointed to the Lampoon. Guards told newsmen elaborate stories of a "curly haired boy" standing near the cod, holding a large, long florist's box. 'But," one guard said, "from him came the breath of something other than lilies. It was a sort of alcoholic fragrance." The alcoholic fragrance turned to a drunken stench as the city of Boston got increasingly enraged. The Post reported angrily that "the thief was intoxicated...badly in need of a shave...wore brown clothing...
Abernathy (see box), who became president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and took charge of the Poor People's Campaign when the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, moved into the tent city after some of its citizens lambasted him for living at the nearby Pitts' motel. He was then appointed mayor of Resurrection City by acclamation...
Possibly in a generation, polls may lead to instant national referendums. Every voter would have a small electronic box with "yes" and "no" buttons. The President could ask for public opinion on any issue-Should the nation invest $50 billion to send men to Mars?-and the presumably informed electorate would flash back an immediate response. Technically, this is feasible right now. Automated democracy might dilute the power of a lot of Congressmen-no loss to democracy in some cases...
...Instead, like the workers, who joined them soon enough, they had felt increasingly frustrated by a government on which normal public and political pressures had almost no effect. Underneath the obvious grievances, a spiritual antagonism had built up against De Gaulle during the long years of his autocracy (see box...