Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little bridge with his family (he made four spades with ease). He lunched with old agency colleagues, who gave him a long, standing ovation and, over his protests, passed around a pot for money to help him pay his fine. He seemed to be wryly accepting the next chapter of a spy's life. Instead of a medal for brilliant, selfless service, he was convicted of a misdemeanor...
...voting on the ERA. The California branches of NOW and of the League of Women Voters took out a small ad in the San Francisco Chronicle, urging weekend gamblers to stay away from Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe and other Nevada gambling spots. Recalls Jeane Bendorf, chairman of the chapter's political task force: "Nevada Governor Mike O'Callaghan called and screamed at us to stop any further ads. We realized we had hit a pressure point." At a meeting in February, the NOW national board set up an economic-sanctions committee...
...disturbed to read in a recent Crimson about the intent of founders for a Harvard chapter of the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) to "seek undergraduate funding." According to the article, they hope that CHUL will put a $3 surcharge on student term bills to bankroll them, if they can get a majority of students to agree to the scheme by signing their petition...
...help stutterers, each project chapter holds weekly meetings to discuss various therapies,* as well as plans for dealing with job discrimination and social ridicule. Members also take the opportunity to unload their pain and resentment. Says Goldman: "These are people who never, never before participated in any group. Many just don't interact with people outside their immediate families. The shame runs very deep...
Amnesty International's basic tactics have proved effective for years. A local group "adopts" three known political prisoners: one in a Communist country, one in a non-Communist developed country, one in a "nonaligned" Third World nation (no group adopts prisoners in its own country). The adopting chapter boosts the morale of the prisoner with letters and material relief to his family, and bombards government officials at all levels with letters seeking his release. According to MacBride, "The avalanche of mail is the biggest annoyance to most governments. Soon the issue is being raised at Cabinet level, and everyone...