Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The International Toboggan championship in Saint-Moritz, the World Championship Auto Demolition Derby in Islip, N.Y., and a look at the folderol and fakery surrounding the Feb. 6 Cassius Clay-Ernie Terrell heavyweight champion- ship fight...
...admits that an organization's policymakers must take the initiative and make renewal possible. Therein lies the problem, for by discriminatory hiring and promotion policies, inept men have perpetuated and advanced mediocrity. Those who should best understand the need for renewal will be the very ones who will fight it. Good luck to Secretary Gardner; he's going to need...
...Gruening Amendment to the Selective Service Act would allow one war objectors exemption from military duty. If adopted this measure would make it possible for anyone who does not want to fight in Vietnam to get an exemption. We should begin to organize all people potentially affected by the draft, as well as those unaffected but who oppose the draft, around the slogan NO DRAFTEES TO VIETNAM. A campaign such as this could have a real mass appeal, bringing about the kind of unity between students and non-students which could never result from a drive to abolish...
...children of rich families, most students have found it exceedingly difficult to pay such a big sum for school fees. In order to make some money, they cannot help, as soon as the school bell rings to dismiss school, rushing to various hotels, restaurants, and coffee houses to fight for jobs as dish-washers, waiters, baby-sitters, etc. They often work from 4 o'clock in the afternoon straight to midnight; after that they drag their tired bodies back to their dormitories. And the wages they get are pitifully small. In restaurants near, or even far away from some universities...
...none was given by the legislators who introduced it. The original legislation, passed in 1958, obligated students to sign a disclaimer, swearing that they didn't believe in or belong to any organization which advocated overthrowing the government, in addition to the loyalty oath. Harvard helped lead the fight against the disclaimer--losing about three million dollars in the process when it refused to accept money on these terms. And in 1962, the nation's universities finally persuaded Judge Howard Smith, then the courtly autocrat of the House Rules Committee, to remove the disclaimer. But in Smith's maneuver...