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...radical organizer. Alinsky says that he is trying to induce "some leading left-wing economists and emancipated corporation executives" to help him form an organization called Proxies for People. It would solicit proxies from foundations, mutual funds, union welfare funds, churches and universities, and vote them to compel corporations to pursue such social goals as ending pollution. Alinsky says that he is getting voluntary proxies every day from individual sympathizers-and telephone calls from worried and presumably unemancipated corporation executives sounding him out about his intentions...
...Peking these days, is convinced that China must begin to emerge from the isolation of the Cultural Revolution, and 2) the Chinese are genuinely fearful that a breakdown of the border negotiations could lead to war with the Soviet Union, and are hoping that talks with the U.S. will compel Moscow to become more conciliatory...
...Middlesex District Court found John Berg guilty of criminal trespass for being inside University Hall during the protest against the Cambridge Project this September. Berg's conviction shows that the Committee of Fifteen seriously intends to compel students separated or dismissed last spring to stay off Harvard property...
...made a creditable start. Under his direction, the Civil Rights Division has filed 33 lawsuits against segregation in public accommodations and 15 against discrimination in housing. Last week-perhaps to assuage critics on the eve of his Supreme Court appearance-the division asked a federal court in Atlanta to compel Georgia to integrate its public schools by the start of the 1970-71 year...
...more material way, investors expressed a yearning for peace, and a belief that peace would be bullish. They bought stock in close to record amounts and sent the market to its sharpest gains in months. Prices spurted early in the week on hopes that the Moratorium demonstrations would compel the Nixon Administration to take some action that might further scale down the war. Stocks paused at midweek as investors took profits, but climbed again on news of the Communist offer of direct talks between the U.S. and the Viet Cong. Prices tapered after the U.S. rejected the offer...