Word: gyms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside the buildings the militants enjoyed visible support in the form of the thousands who watched from various points on campus, most conspicuously at the Sundial. A campus poll reportedly boycotted by those in the buildings showed that 74 percent of the participants favored "end gym construction," 66 percent favored severing ties with IDA, and 37 percent even favored amnesty for all students involved in the demonstrations...
Violent Protests. Pacheco, 48, inherited this situation when he was elevated to his post from the vice-presidency by the sudden death of President Oscar Gestido. A former newspaper editor who relaxes by dropping in on his favorite gym to box, Pacheco opened his campaign for national discipline in a gloves-off spirit. He fired six members of his own Colorado Par ty from their ministerial jobs. Since then, he has replaced all but one man in the twelve-member Cabinet with "good technicians." To halt inflation, which had boosted prices 200% in 18 months and forced five devaluations...
...know that there are some persons on the campus who are not telling all they know about the murder and we intend to find out just who's holding back." The three students are charged with conspiracy to arson (police claim that they were about to burn the gym and a women's dorm) and possession of explosives. Tigner is also charged with "felonious assault," but no one has yet been charged with murder...
...short, tough, idealistic exMarine, ran the pacification program through his First Presbyterian Church in the Woodlawn district on the South Side. He has been involved in church-related slum programs before, and had considerable success in helping to damp down the Chicago riots of 1966. Fry's gym became a Ranger recreation center, and gang members were given training for productive jobs...
Iron Mike, Punchy and the rest of the gang back at Stillman's Gym will never believe it, but Willie the Weep McGinnity has become a bullfighting fan. It is only a month or so since Myra, Willie's old lady, dragged him off to Spain ("Willie," she said, "you hit the twin double for four big ones and you expect me to go to the Catskills again?"), but already he has seen three bullfights. The first time Willie went because Myra was out shopping, and it was the only wheel in Madrid. When he got back...