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...After winning its match with little effort, the Crimson fencing team will have to exert itself a bit more today to defeat a weak CCNY team. The match begins at 2 p. m. on the man floor...

Author: By Martin R. Garay iii, | Title: Fencers Host CCNY Today | 12/12/1970 | See Source »

...Egypt, Premier Mahmoud Fawzi gave an interview to the daily Al Ahram, stressing the needs of the "ordinary man" in Egypt and concluding: "We must exert a tremendous effort on the domestic side before things start looking up for us abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Political Housekeeping | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

...organized by SDS's War Council, failed to get underway at 3 p. m. when none of the speakers showed up. A light rain started and on the suggestion of a girl in the crowd, the demonstrators left the park and marched towards Symphony Hall in an effort to "exert our energies more forcefully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Area Radicals Step Up Political Activity | 11/24/1970 | See Source »

...vacuum and leading the anti-war forces, grateful for any politician that cared to come along. Until the movement can once again be resurrected, the burden of opposition to the president must fall to those who are in a position to be most effective. What pressure students can exert must be applied directly and exclusively to those liberal senators who have been riding the wake of an anti-war crest. The message is simple: filibuster-like the lives of millions of innocent Vietnamese depend...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Breaking Away From Apathy: The First Step | 11/24/1970 | See Source »

Seventeen hundred people remembered grapes well enough to sign the petition against scab lettuce at Harvard. Once again, after moral arguments had been ineffective, Cesar Chavez called for a boycott to exert economic pressure upon the growers. The demands were not quite the same. The objective of the grapes boycott was to obtain the growers recognition of the farmworkers' union (one of the few not yet protected by national labor legislation). The unsettling complication with lettuce was that most of the growers could point to a contract they made with the Teamsters Union last summer as their excuse for avoiding...

Author: By Mary Eisner, | Title: The Lettuce Boycott | 11/24/1970 | See Source »

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