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Jennifer Hamilton Calvert...
...prize, named for A. Calvert Smith '14, former associate editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, originated in a fund set up by Calvert's widow in 1956. Since 1959 the fund has given sporadic awards of several hundred dollars to faculty members. A recent anonymous contribution to the Calvert fund has made possible the establishment of the $1000 prize, Bethell said...
Diligence in office is what Bradley promised voters, and if his past is an indication, he will do as he pledged. "I am basically a cautious, conservative man," he says. His is the typical up-by-the-bootstraps story, black or white. He was born in Calvert, Texas, a dusty town so small, he says, "that you can spit all the way across it." His father, a cotton picker, kept moving the family until they finally reached Los Angeles in 1923. Bradley attended an almost exclusively white high school. Nicknamed "Long Tom" because of his commanding height...
...safer and more popular form of symbolic protest, according to Robert Calvert, coordinator of the New York-based War Tax Resistance center, is to stop paying the 10% federal excise tax on telephone bills. The money involved is small, and the telephone company can't collect it. One phone company tried cutting off the service of a Mississippi protester. It was reinstated after she complained to the Federal Communications Commission. The phone company practice is simply to inform the IRS of the protester's refusal and take no further action. The number of phone resisters doubled from...
...Calvert Watkins...