Word: dows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some employers whose activities are so repugnant that they offend the moral sense of a substantial portion of the University, and that to allow them in might in effect be seen as University condonement of what they do. The most obvious examples of such organizations would be Dow Chemical Corporation and the Central Intelligence Agency...
These are the people who make or break a Dow demonstration at Harvard. It was their numbers that blockaded Dow recruiter Fred Leavitt last October three days after Federal troops had driven them off the steps of the Pentagon. This seeming strength of their organization then led some SDS leaders, in their more extravagant moments, to threaten closing down the University. But it is this pivotal group--let's call them the liberal activists--which has recently turned away from SDS, and which probably really didn't believe in them anyway...
...Harvard events, and from the national press about far-off places like Wisconsin and B.U. The press, of course, hands its readers what it wants, and most of that is sensational. It was sensational news about police brutality in Oakland and Washington that turned the liberal activists against Dow in the fall, and it is the overplayed copy about SDS' demanding no tuition that disenchants them...
...confidence, like SDS. That's why they don't get involved in the dirty work of daily radicalism as represented by SDS's current 'Ten Days in April" organizing campaign. And because the dramatic preconditions of October were absent last February, the liberal activists weren't even there when Dow came back...
...Jersey, which offers a flat two months' induction pay plus 50% of the difference between service and civilian pay for married men as long as they are on active duty. Atlanta-based Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. pays a 100% differential for up to six months, while Dow Chemical men go off to war with a check for up to two months' pay. Western Electric pro vides full differential pay for the first three months of active duty, plus an other three months for each of an employee's dependents. Philip Morris...