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...Eighteen of the poor were arrested for unlawful assembly on Capitol Hill. Two hundred young toughs, mostly from Chicago and Detroit, were bounced from the 15-acre tent city for drinking, stealing and, as the Rev. James Bevel put it, "beating on our white people." Organizational snafus forced the leaders to put off a big march scheduled for this week until June 19 (known as "Juneteenth Day" for the anniversary of the freeing of the slaves in Texas in 1865). They also sent out an emergency summons to Bayard Rustin to handle the march, which may prove to be their...
...Eighteen women have received appointments to the Radcliffe Institute for post-graduate research or creative work...
Saving on Rice. What is planned is a call-up of an additional 158,000 men this year, aimed particularly at the young. Eighteen-and 19-year-olds will be drafted first, and the army will accept volunteers of 16 and 17. Not only are men of those ages more militarily educable, but few have families, thus saving the government rice allowances and family bonuses normally paid to older, married soldiers. And, since the Viet Cong are recruiting at younger and younger ages, the government hopes to get to the boys before the enemy does. It also intends to induct...
...Harvard broke six meet records and won twelve of the eighteen events...
When Harry Cowles came to Harvard in 1922, there were eighteen squash courts in the old Freshman Gym between Holyoke and Dunster Streets. The Linden Street building housed a melange of all sorts of old walled games like court tennis, but by 1924 they had all been replaced with courts for squash, the most popular game, and Harvard had the space for its future champions...