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...Dow Chemical...
...before their orders can be placed. Goodbody & Co. stopped giving quotations and White, Weld & Co. halted its over-the-counter operations an hour before the new and foreshortened 3:30 p.m. official closing time. Despite all the activity, most indexes showed that stock prices fell slightly last week; the Dow-Jones industrial average slipped 1.26 points to close at 913.62. Many brokers dismissed the declines as a mere pause before a traditional summer rally...
...reasons that the university became the target are not too hard to see. There was a rational progression to it all. The Dow sit-ins of the fall protested first the corporation's manufacture of napalm, and then the university's sanction of it by allowing Dow to use university facilities to recruit future napalm-makers...
...Harvard the reaction to the Pentagon was the Dow sit-in. Three hundred students held a Dow recruiter named Frederick Leavitt inside Malinckrodt M-102 for seven hours, then let him go. As a result, 74 students were placed on probation and the Student-Faculty Advisory Council, a committee of the Faculty, was set up to look into recruiting and other things...
...Dow demonstration crystallized much of the dissatisfaction at Radcliffe and gave it a direction: to change student government and make it more responsive to student concerns. Three alternative constitutions were drawn up, and the most radical of these, RUS, won by a slim majority...