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Gartner called the picket "an enormous success." The national goal of the demonstration was to inform the public about Howard Johnson discrimination and get added support for CORE's position...
...MARK RUSSELL AS SARGENT SHRIVER TALKING TO PEACE CORPS RECRUITS: It's my job to inform you about the difficulties and hardships you'll meet. Often you'll be on the receiving end of many personal insults and much suffering, possibly in the form of untamed violence, rock throwing, spitting and physical attack. Then, when you leave Washington...
...Haiku. Interspersed with Nikkei's business surveys, stock tables and industry profiles are features that seem to stretch its avowed policy to "inform the public of economic affairs." Each 16-page issue, for example, devotes one page to general news, including crime and the weather, one page to sports, another page to culture. Nikkei's art criticism is rated as the best of any newspaper in Japan. And it even finds room for those familiar staples of all Japanese newspapers : a serialized novel and an assortment of haiku, the classic three-line poem whose origins go back centuries...
Blasi soon fixes that. He lets the prisoners escape in the hope that they will inform the British high command as to what poor shape the Italian detachment is in; perhaps, he thinks, the English won't dispatch any troops after such a pitiable quarry. Naturally, the English send Niven right back to the chase. The major demands that Blasi surrender his fort. But pride is Blasi's stand-in for honor, and he demands some elaborate Italian form of face-saving military etiquette. Nonsense, says Niven, holding out for unconditional surrender. While the British major is practicing...
...list of industries whose tariffs he felt were detrimental to Oklahoma's welfare, Douglas rose to ask whether the Pregnant Mares' Urine Association was on the list. Replied Kerr: "No, but I know that the Senator from Illinois, being an authority on it, would be glad to inform the Senate about it-not that I think the Senator from Illinois would be an exhibit...