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When on Dec. 18, 1957, the first girls were taken onto the Crimson to the special position of Radcliffe Correspondents, not entitled to vote or hold office, the managing editor made a futile last-ditch stand against them, declaring in print "Woman's place is in the home. The female is innately inferior." Within two years girls were serving on the executive board of the paper, on the executive board of the Young Democrats, as president of the Liberal Union, as president of the Organ Society, as announcers for WHRB, and had organized a cocd disarmament club...
Furious, Gen Blatt accused the party's bosses of meeting in a "smoke-filled hotel room" to ditch her, refused to bow out. To complicate matters, Roberts, 66, who holds the post of Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) Prothonotary,*also jumped into the race. A baggy-pants type who never got past grade school, Roberts scoffed at his opponents' education (Musmanno claims seven college degrees, Blatt three), spoke scornfully if confusedly of "high-kaflutin' " politicians...
Then suddenly and, as far as anyone can tell, on their own initiative, 10,000 villagers-all except the sick, the aged and the very young children-turned out for 27 straight days and dug a ten-mile ditch around the elongated village. The moat begins at the riverbank, marches through rice fields and coconut groves, curls around the spurs of two foothills, across a marshy neck of the sea, and returns again to the riverbank. With their hefty hoes, the villagers dug 10 ft. down and 20 ft. wide. The earth, lifted up in round bamboo baskets, became...
During the night, Hafez moved up additional units, including T-54s. Next morning, the tank columns and armored infantry broke through the barricades and drove the rebels into last-ditch positions in the rabbit warrens of the old city and in the Sultan Mosque. Tanks and artillery hammered at the mosque for an hour, and shells brought the 60-ft. minaret, together with a rebel machine-gun nest, crashing down...
...week, therefore, about 100 demonstrators broke from the edge of the muddy Lakeview lot, threw themselves at the wheels and treads of bulldozers, power shovels, trucks and mobile concrete mixers. A power shovel operator watched in disbelief as six people-including a woman five months pregnant-leaped into a ditch and stretched out prone just beneath the shovel's jaws. Police moved in to disperse the demonstrators, but many came out of the muck fighting. Twenty-one were arrested that day; two were hurt...