Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILD BUNCH. The place is the Tex-Mex border, around the turn of the century, where a group of freebooting bandits try to scrounge a living out of a life that is fast becoming obsolete. Director Sam Peckinpah explores this violent world with hard-edged poetry and a sense of visual splendor that establishes him as one of the best American film makers...
...criticism of his own foreign policy when he was Harry Truman's Secretary of State, weighed in with the observation that open season on Presidents should be limited to "the quadrennial donnybrook," an Achesonism for presidential elections. Henry Kissinger, the President's chief foreign affairs strategist, told a group of visiting Quakers that the Moratorium is "counterproductive" because it comes at a time when the North Vietnamese are shaping their post-Ho policies. Vice President Spiro Agnew discreetly withdrew from an Oct. 15 New Jersey political dinner to avoid becoming a target for protesters. The Vice President denounced...
People were sent out not only to homes and apartment buildings, but to gas stations, shopping centers, and MBTA stops. The Law School had its own canvass project to leaflet commuters which began at 6 a.m. and ran until about 10 a.m. This group involved about 600 volunteers...
...ROBERT H. EBERT, Dean of the Medical School, was on a street corner in downtown Boston for three hours handing out postcards with a group of anti-war doctors. Ebert said that a large number of Med School faculty and students helped give out the postcards, which ask President Nixon to withdraw American troops. By the end of the day, the doctors had handed out more than 100,000 cards...
Moratorium Day began with candle-lit vigils Tuesday night and meetings in several colleges, some of them in freezing weather. In Albany, New York, a group of students spent the night huddled around fires in blankets and sleeping bags while temperatures hovered in the low 30's. In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, about 100 students, many in bathing suits, attended a dawn rally...