Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face it: mass-media newscasting [April 26] is now the global version of that old game, let's you and him fight. For profit, politics or publicity, we are perpetually assaulted, kicked in the adrenal glands, frustrated and depressed vicariously by the stream of reports on rape, riot and rebellion in places we know nothing about, will never see, can do nothing for, and which consume our energies and misdirect our concerns from our real individual responsibilities for job, family and community. One man's information is indeed another man's identification with militarism, license, revolt, sadism...
...sheriff's decision to hang up his legislative guns is also based on political realism. Democrat Hayden faced the toughest fight of his career-and perhaps his first defeat since turning professional-because Barry Goldwater will be the Republican candidate. Still, Hayden is not withdrawing entirely. He is promoting the candidacy of his administrative assistant, Roy Elson, 37, for the Democratic nomination. In a statement drafted for distribution this week, Hayden says: "If you still care about how I think, join me in urging Roy Elson to run in my place...
...demonstration is right. But I multiplied these figures by an absolute importance constant. I hate to hamper the hobby of my friends (and maybe screw, probably screw my own future in it). I am sorry about that, but death is being done by this university and I would rather fight it now than row a boat...
...major issues were at stake in the constitution fight: student legislative power and student representation on the Council. The new constitution grants RUS requests on one point--independent legislation--but does not accept RUS' demand for permanent student membership on the Council...
Kennedy had hoped to take more than 45 per cent of the vote in the three-way fight. A vote of over 50 per cent would have seriously injured McCarthy's chances for the nomination and would have thrown a cog in Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey's delegate-gathering bandwagon...