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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHEN S. I. Hayakawa stormed into San Francisco State last fall, he certainly appeared to be a harbinger of the long-awaited crackdown on student protestors. Hayakawa jumped fearlessly into the violent strike that had devoured two S.F. State presidents before him. He captured the national conservative imagination as he struck his tough stance. Without wasting any time mumbling about the strikers' demands for black studies deparments, Hayakawa said that order was his goal. He was going to keep that college open. He would break the strike. And he was not about to let a "violence-minded gang of anarchists...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: A Little Balance | 3/26/1969 | See Source »

...others. Hayakawa still has to decide whether the strike leaders "deserve" amnesty. And the leaders themselves say that the administration has violated agreements before. The Black Students Union still demands that S.F. State rehire Nathan Hare and George Murray--the two Black Panthers whose firings triggered the strike last fall--while Hayakawa still refuses to bring them back...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: A Little Balance | 3/26/1969 | See Source »

...ordered the ACE questionnaires placed in freshman registration envelopes for the last several years "against my own wishes but by instruction from President Pusey." Bayr said the results of those polls will be given to the Carnegie Commission, which will be doing an undergraduate study in the fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Questionnaires | 3/25/1969 | See Source »

When Harvard's undefeated football squad arrives at practice next fall, it will find two new coaches and two old coaches in new positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Coaching Staff Changes: Dickie Named Defensive End Coach | 3/24/1969 | See Source »

...Innkeeper (Richard Anderson) by means of fancy clothes and fancy talk. Motley is a sleek, clever confidence man, putting it over on everybody, even his friend Leander, who in the end turns against his sneaky wiles. Leander, the ostensible hero, is altogether a mediocre guy; he manages to fall truly in love with equally dull Silvia (Demetra Striggles), who luckily stands to inherit an enormous fortune from her fractious father (Tony Maier). Dona Sirena the matchmaker (Lucy Raudenbush), a magnificent grande dame whose social position is somewhat frayed for lack of funds, turns a blind, pragmatic eye to the goings...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: The Bonds of Interest | 3/22/1969 | See Source »

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