Word: holding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plan to send out letters to various professors here who sympathize strongly with us asking them to cancel classes during the week of March 4," Haseltine said. "We will ask other professors to hold discussions in their classes about the issues," he added...
President's Signal. Faced with the Communist threat, the Western Allies firmly reminded the Soviet Union that they hold the Russians responsible for maintaining free access to West Berlin. After talks in Bonn with Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson jetted to West Berlin for a seven-hour visit. "We shall continue -you can count on this-to do all that is in our power to ensure that your freedom is preserved," he said on television. Berliners were pleased and somewhat reassured. But they were even more pleased by the prospect of next week's visit...
...Parliament. Since that time, Thackeray has fought hard to obtain a better break for the natives of Maharashtra State, of which Bombay is the capital; in particular, he worked to get more white-collar jobs for them, charging that outsiders from the neighboring states of Mysore and Kerala hold a disproportionate number of these eagerly sought posts in Bombay. His war cry is "Maharashtra for the Maharashtrians," and he has been pressing the Indian government for several months for a resolution of Maharashtra State's long-pending claim to 814 villages in Mysore...
...black students and a condemnation of the school's "white racist" policies. The students also tried to tie up telephone lines to administrative offices and to book appointments with campus officials in an effort to keep them too busy to perform their jobs. Nonetheless, Illinois was able to hold classes on schedule. - At Roosevelt University in Chicago, black students dramatized the usual list of demands by taking over classes in psychology, political science and literature from regular teachers and delivering their own black-oriented lectures. After meeting with the dissidents, Dean of Students Lawrence Silverman announced that...
...York Rangers' Rod Gilbert, for example, explains that from his right-wing position "with a straight stick and a fast play the shot will slide off my stick like a golfer's slice. But with the curved stick I can hold the puck a second longer, have better control when I fake the goalie, and then whip it into the corner with the left-hand spin and know it won't trail off." Other players say that the sickle stick helps them to scoop the puck off the boards and, by cradling it inside the curve, shield...