Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Howard officials agreed to create a student judiciary committee to review charges against 37 students for disrupting a University program on March 1st. The Admininstration declared "unnegotiable" the student demand for the resignation of Howard President James Nabrit. They also said that the students' fourth demand for curriculum changes "will require further discussion...
...students filed out of the administration building Saturday afternoon carrying blankets and suitcases, conversation centered around today's return of Howard President James Nabrit. The resignation of Nabrit became the chief student demand as sentiment swelled during the protest. Students claimed that Nabrit spent too much time away from the campus and neglected the "problems and issues raised by the student body." Nabrit was reported to be in Puerto Rico when the protest started. He is scheduled to retire in July and would face mandatory retirement because of age--he is 68--in September...
...shrink by 50% from a postwar peak of $24.6 billion. Now, believed the speculators, the U.S. was nearing the end of its gold tether. If the U.S. could no longer sell gold to all takers at $35 an ounce and the price were allowed to rise to meet the demand, the speculators stood to make a handsome profit, just as they had in the devaluation of the pound sterling last November. Having tasted blood then, many scented another kill -and, in their wild buying, ripped and clawed at the remaining gold stocks in the Gold Pool...
...second-hand record market. When Bill Haley and his Comets arrive in England next month for a tour, they will find that their epoch-making 1950s' recordings of Rock Around the Clock and Shake, Rattle and Roll have been reissued to meet a rising demand. New British groups are being formed with names like Tommy Bishop and the Rock 'n' Roll Revival Show, and trade journals are eagerly asking: Is the old rock coming back...
Some 1,200 employees of the Plaza Athénée, George V and La Trémoille luxury hotels marched last week past venerable haute couture and perfume houses along Paris' Avenue Montaigne. "We demand our heritage of great hotels," read one banner. A few hotel guests joined the protest of their chambermaids, valets, busboys and chefs. "Our hotels are among the most prestigious in the world," explained Monsieur Bougenaux, head concierge of Plaza Athenee. Now, he fears, all this is going to change...