Word: callings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning last October, 27 prisoners at the Presidio stockade in San Francisco disrupted roll call by staging a sitdown demonstration. The inmates said they were protesting against the action of a guard, who had needlessly shotgunned a suicidal prisoner trying to escape. They also complained of the unsanitary conditions of the stockade. The Army charged the 27 men with mutiny, and at the first of a series of courts-martial, three of them received sentences of up to 16 years (TIME, Feb. 21). There was an immediate public outcry at the harsh sentences, which were subsequently reduced to two years...
...Call. Ditto was chopping 500 Ibs. of cotton a day in his native Texas when he was 13. He has been speaking up for the poor and the black since the day in 1961 when he left his Chicago taxi-driving job to join a school demonstration. Since then he has been arrested 18 times. He became a community organizer and marched for 155 consecutive days with Dick Gregory...
...representatives of the Communist parties, whose ideal is the construction of the just society: Can it really be that such an obvious restoration of Stalinism in our country -the head of Communist society -does not alarm you? We call upon you to examine the total seriousness of the situation and do everything that your conscience and reason tell you -everything that is in your power -so that the ominous shadow of Stalin will not darken our future...
Thomas Hoving, director of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, has been making a big splash recently with his call for greater involvement of the public in the affairs of th earth world. People at Harvard often talk of breaking down the barriers which have traditionally kept the university aloof from the life of the people of Cambridge. One must be careful, however, that in the process one does not dilute what Curator Bond has called "the raw material" of scholarship. One must be careful in building up a new community not to destroy another, equally important...
...elect a special committee to handle discipline and to study the causes and effects of the disruption. The Faculty combined two proposed resolutions and finally passed a statement criticizing both the seizure of the building and the use of police. President Pusey and Dean Ford explained the decision to call police, stressing the importance of files in University Hall and the Administration's feeling that "there was no alternative...