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ROCK IT TO 'EM, said the placards at the University of Minnesota. At the University of Kansas, it was TO HELL WITH NIXON. In his visits to the two states, Rockefeller seemed to be establishing his campaign pattern: forays to key non-primary states in which he combines attention-getting campus capers with sedate wooing of convention delegates. How many delegates he swayed was uncertain, but the Governor did famously among the students...
...laying babies on their stomachs, but Russian mothers swaddle infants tightly and set them on their backs; he urges early feeding of solids, Russian gurglers stick to milk and cereal; he advises never force a child to walk, while Russian parents want their offspring up and at 'em as soon as possible...
...Em Out." Over the next 48 hours, other students accepted the invitation and seized three more campus buildings. By this time, the sit-ins had taken on an air of well-oiled organization. From inside the barricaded buildings, the insurgents sent out emissaries to bring back food, blankets and Vaseline-to smear on their faces on the theory that it deadened the effects of the chemical Mace. Suddenly image-conscious, they began tidying up their own disorder, even emptying wastebaskets. A coordinated command post was set up, mimeograph machines churned out bulletins and manifestos. The Negro group in Hamilton Hall...
Other students, including many sympathetic to the demonstrators' demands, began to complain about their disruptive tactics. Outside Low Library, some 200 counterdemonstrators cried: "Get 'em out! Get 'em out!" Some threw eggs. A group of Columbia athletes volunteered to remove the protesters, but were restrained by school officials. "If this is a barbarian society," growled a burly wrestler, "then it's survival of the fittest-and we're the fittest...
That's right. There are eight--count 'em, eight--right now. And three more on the way. Sound a bit like a Christmas card from Bobby Kennedy? Well, no--it's just another annual business report from the Sack Theatres. Within 15 years, Ben Sack has managed to piece together a chain of eight movie houses which dominate Boston. Not since Cotton Mather has one man managed to dictate so successfully what passes for entertainment in the town...