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...remained on the Green after dark, saying. "Some of the people who have come to New Haven seem to have no intention of freeing Bobby Seale and the other New Haven Panthers." Douglas F. Miranda, Panther New England Area Captain, called the skirmishers "provocateurs" who are trying to crush the Black Panther Party...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: New Haven Organizers Charge Intimidation | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

Unfortunately. Penn is quite close to being Hertz. Unlike last year, when Harvard rowed a subpart race at Philadelphia but came back to crush the Quakers at Worcester, there seems little chance of avenging the loss...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Penn Rows to Convincing Win Over Heavies | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

...studies, 57% of the teachers were unwilling to lower standards to admit more minority-group students, and 75% opposed relaxing academic requirements to put more minority members on faculties. Still, not all student complaints were rejected. Almost half the teachers believed that most U.S. colleges reward student conformity and crush the creative; 69% agreed that education would improve if courses were made more "relevant" to contemporary life. As Hayakawa might have predicted, faculty in the humanities were more sympathetic to campus radicals than teachers of science, engineering, medicine and other professions. Even so, those most committed to activist goals were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Two Perceptions | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

Alluding frequently to Marxist doctrine, Carmichaol said that the first step for the world's African people was to control a portion of lund-"Mother Africa." From there, he said, "we expand... to crush the monsters of imperialism" like the United States...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Carmichael Attacks White Radicals For Causing Repression of Blacks | 4/23/1970 | See Source »

Janet (Catherine Burns) is one of those 19-year-old girls who cannot turn the pages of a book without developing a crush on its author. Writer Alec Kooning (Kevin O'Connor), urbane, 50, short of wind and past the crest of his talent, cannot receive an adoring letter from such a girl without replying in grateful ardor. Females being females, with their minds "half on virginity, half on the game," Janet maneuvers her hero into a meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Swinging, Sophisticated Party | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

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