Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty star in William Inge's Splendor in the Grass (1961), which is also a chance to see Sandy Dennis' film debut...
After he had grubbed for several years at the grass roots, it seemed only right that handsome, hardworking Donald Hamerquist should be rewarded with an official role in Oregon's Democratic establishment. Thus a year ago, he was allowed to run unopposed for the post of committeeman for the 400th Precinct in Portland's Multnomah County and was duly elected 88 to 0. Hamerquist's harmony with the party was unbroken until last March, when an FBI informer revealed that he was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party. To the consternation of the Democrats, Hamerquist...
...conceivable that Magraw, like some radicals, desired a harsh reaction from the Administration, figuring that students--feeling oppressed and frustrated on parietals--would rise up in a grass roots version of student power to confront the Administration. Magraw has said that he became "more impressed" with the potential of civil disobedience tactics after talking with other student leaders at the National Student Association convention last summer. But if that was Magraw's strategy, he badly misjudged both his own organization and the student body. The overwhelming majority of HUC members are committed to change within the system. They want...
Throwing only a hundred pitches in the nine innings. Lonborg showed brilliant control, keeping the ball low and getting most batters to hit grass hoppers to the infielders...
...likely to be one of the posts along the barrier that Defense Secretary Robert McNamara said would be constructed south of the DMZ. Already it is the western terminus of a 600-yd.-wide swath that was bulldozed for eleven miles through the scrub brush and elephant grass earlier in the year to serve as a free-fire zone in which anything that moves is shot at. Though details of the new barrier remain secret, it is assumed that it will be an extension of the present line over to the Laotian border. Thus it probably will be necessary...