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...running in Vermont, where farmers have tapped the sugar maples and the stuff is flowing through plastic tubing directly from the trees to the sugarhouses. Detroit's Belle Isle Park and the banks of the Charles River in Boston sported colorful curtains of kites over the Easter weekend. Kent State students were playing baseball last week on the green where their fatal confrontation with the National Guard took place nearly a year ago. Reprieved from the junk heap, the Delta Queen, last of the overnight, stern-wheel Mississippi riverboats, started a new "maiden" voyage to Cincinnati last week...
Penn and Harvard both lost to Princeton last year, but ended up co-champions of the Ivy League when the Tigers forfeited the remainder of their schedule after the Kent State killings...
Died. Lewis Gruber, 75, tobacco executive; in Manhattan. A crack salesman who smoked three to four packs of cigarettes a day, Gruber joined the tobacco firm of P. Lorillard Co. in 1924, became president in 1956. His campaign promoting the Micronite filter helped propel Kent domestic sales from 3.4 billion to 36 billion in two years. Puffing at doctors' warnings, Lorillard advertising claimed "We're Tobacco Men, Not Medicine Men," prescribed Old Gold cigarettes (another company product) "For a Treat Instead of a Treatment...
PCPJ and NPAC have called for a national moratorium on May 5 to commemorate the killings at Jackson State and Kent State. In Boston, there will be a rally on the Common, where members of the PCPJ (mostly from the American Friends Service Committee and MassPax) will construct either one or a series of geodesic domes to serve as information centers for local anti-war activities. Organizers hope to be able to keep the domes open through the summer, but if that proves impossible, they will attempt to open a storefront near the Common to serve as their information center...
...Justice Department. For May 3 the May Day Tribe has planned as yet unspecified acts of civil disobedience at the Pentagon, and actions are planned against the Justice Department for May 4. A national Moratorium is planned for May 5, to commemorate the killings at Jackson State and Kent State...