Word: kent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make the journey northward. Phil Jonchkeer, Pete Kellogg, Dan Daiss, Reed McCarty and Doug Forrester did not travel with the team. Even with many of their best individual players absent, the aquamen exhibited excellent teamwork. Outstanding efforts were turned in by Tracy (Flash) Mallory, Alan (Bozo) Bozer, and (Clark) Kent Osband as well as the usually inspired performance of captain Mike Graff...
There is nothing like an infusion of royalty to raise money for a good cause. Princess Alexandra of Kent, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, lent her aristocratic presence to a dinner dance at Manhattan's Americana Hotel, and the infusion was further strengthened by the presence of Film Star Cory Grant. The result was a happy stamping ground for some 1,200 of New York's upward mobility set and a gratifying take for Variety Clubs International, which aids handicapped and needy children...
Mandel sent in 800 National Guardsmen to rout 2,000 demonstrators who had fought off police and attempted to burn an ROTC armory. At Stanford, police plowed into a column of 1,000 marching students and arrested 207 of them. And at Kent State, campus policemen arrested 200 students who sprawled in a hallway to block entrance to the offices of the university's ROTC instructors. But on most campuses, the crisis managers had only relatively mild crises to manage. Both on Viet Nam and on other issues of race and politics, the students themselves lacked the fervor...
TODAY, THE Emergency National Moratorium Committee has called for a one-day nationwide moratorium against business as usual. This is not merely a commemoration of the deaths of four students at Kent State University who were shot by National Guardsmen during the 1970 Cambodia strike. It is a broad-based and locally-oriented action intended to give people throughout the country an opportunity to talk about the war, to picket draft boards, to hold town meetings. Among those who are supporting the moratorium are Rep. Shirley Chisholm, Sen. Mike Gravel, NPAC and the Black Caucus...
Those of us personally involved in the Kent cases deeply believe that we are struggling to preserve our traditional values of justice, peace, and humanity against the advocates of conformity and the supremacy of force. For us, and for those who share in other aspects of this same struggle, let Kent be the memorial of our resistance. David E. Engdahl Associate Professor University of Colorado School...