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...article on the Mafia [May 16]. I personally feel guilty patronizing a vending machine while millions of good citizens run to the race tracks, dog tracks, jai alai, etc., with their tongues hanging out for a piece of the action. If only people had enough sense and decency to boycott all Mafia enterprises...
...gave in all the way, then. He started to develop a taste for good liquor when before he had never drunk anything except tequila, and he bought an ascot and stopped putting tabasco sauce on everything he ate for dinner. He took down all pictures of Chavez and the Boycott Gallo posters from his wall, but he left up the big black eagle because it impressed all the rich preppie women he started bringing back to his room. He kept telling hemself he didn't have to worry about selling out the movement, because the people he did the town...
...NAACP lost the lawsuit last September when a Mississippi judge awarded $1.25 million to white merchants in Port Gibson, Miss. The merchants sued the NAACP for damages which occurred during a 1966 boycott protesting discrimination against blacks...
...purpose of the current boycott is to highlight institutional problems that demonstrate "the faculty's efforts to intimidate intellectually" the "naive, outgunned student," George Kammer, a third-year student, said yesterday...
Thomas Burroughs, third year class secretary, who dissented from the boycott said, "The grievances are legitimate and the problems ought to be faced but I don't think alumni should dictate changes that won't affect them...