Word: hourlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troops and 25,000 National Guardsmen have been placed on alert in armories around Washington. Another 3500 city policemen are working 12-hour shifts to guard against possible violence...
...great is enthusiasm for this series that the three commercial networks have taken unprecedented steps to publicize it. ABC did interviews with Mrs. Cooney and Dr. Palmer for its network news show. CBS is running, free, Sesame Street commercials. And last Saturday NBC presented a half-hour special about the series. Sesame Street deserves the attention...
About nine thousand Marines and soldiers trained to handle riot situations are stationed on the outskirts of Washington as a special precautionary force. In addition, the city's 3800-man police force isworking 12-hour shifts to handle the protest. Many of these are stationed outside embassies and the homes of Capital dignitaries in Washington's residential areas...
...helper program, unskilled or semi-skilled workers learn painter skills over a three year period, at the end of which they become journeymen. Harvard now employs 13 helpers, seven of them black, and 27 journeymen, three of them black. Helpers are paid from 43c to 86c less per hour than journeymen...
...angry at discovering my picture on the front page of Wednesday's CRIMSON -above an article entitled "SDS Members Protest 'Racism.' Plan sit-in." Where were the SDS'ers? After spending a fruitless half-hour trying to figure out if I could sue you for anything-misrepresentation of the facts, slander, or something-I decided that the words and the picture were mine, and that perhaps a simple letter to the Editor would set the record straight...