Word: documented
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...students asked 271 state senators, assemblymen and members of their staffs to sign, and 111 refused, variously dismissing the petition as a dubious proposition, probably illegal, and poorly worded at best. When Governor David Hall was presented with it, how ever, he examined the document quickly, took out his pen and signed at once. He immediately recognized the wording of the petition as the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution...
...February, RTH had lost its patience with the Fein Committee. The group gave its unanimous approval to a relocation housing development proposal, drawn up by the tenants themselves with the assistance of John Sharratt. This proposal was included in an 86-page document, published that March, that detailed the history of Harvard's relationship with the community. The tone of the report is one of slowly building frustration and distrust, culminating in anger and determination: "We can no longer assume that Harvard can independently make any decision in the interest of the community. They have demonstrated themselves as hostile, aggressive...
...Despite Boyle's frequent pleas of poor memory, the prosecutor repeatedly trapped him. He denied sending Turn-blazer a transcript of a U.M.W. meeting outlining a phony alibi for union officials linked with the murder. Sprague asked why FBI agents had found Boyle's fingerprints on the document. The courtroom stirred at the news, which Sprague had dramatically withheld until Boyle's testimony...
...Sidney Poitier in a movie, The Wilby Conspiracy, filmed in Nairobi and Nanyuki, he took a leave of absence from his company. Patrick emphasized it was only a lark. "I jumped at the offer as something new and exciting," he said in a break between the fights that document the story of a black South African's escape from jail. About the plot, he is enthusiastic: "I'm glad it shows so starkly the evils of the color bar." As for his own role: "It's much harder than being a king...
...Rosovsky report was a progressive document stimulated by the tragic murder of Martin Luther King and informed by the rising tide of militancy among black undergraduates. It undertook to discuss in a serious way "the quality of black student life at Harvard." The committee that wrote the report discovered that conditions at Harvard were such that black students here needed a cultural center along the lines of Hillel House or the Newman Center. The report urged the University to "use (its) good offices in securing and financing a building and providing continued support to the activities of such a social...