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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through an informant, police were kept advised of the League's activities. At 1:45 a.m. Sunday, the informant, a wino and ex-convict, passed the word (and was paid 50? for it): "It's getting ready to blow." Two hours later, 10th Precinct Sergeant Arthur Howison led a raid on the League, arresting 73 Negro customers and the bartender. In the next hour, while squad cars and a paddy wagon ferried the arrested to the police station, a crowd gathered, taunting the fuzz and "jiving" with friends who had been picked up. "Just as we were pulling...
...Double Edge. In his first speeches, De Gaulle started off cautiously, but he kept talking about French Canadians as a people that must "take its destiny in its own hands." He led crowds in singing the Marseillaise and did not seem displeased when hecklers booed the Canadian national anthem. At Montreal's city hall, he responded before a large, excited audience: "I find myself in an atmosphere the same as that of the liberation of Paris." A few moments later, he shouted "Vive le Quebec libre," the notorious cry of Quebec separatists...
Information from disciplinary or counseling files should not be available to unauthorized persons on campus, or to any person off campus without the express consent of the student involved except under legal compulsion or in cases where the safety of persons or property is involved. No records should be kept which reflect the political activities or beliefs of students. Provision should also be made for periodic routine destruction of noncurrent disciplinary records. Administrative staff and faculty members should respect confidential information about students which they acquire in the course of their work...
...world's commodity exchanges, silver for some years has been about as volatile and exciting as molasses. The U.S. Treasury, as the chief free-world supplier of the metal, has kept the market quiet by selling bullion at a low $1.29 per oz. in order to keep the price below the point (about $1.40 per oz.) at which melting U.S. coins for their silver content becomes profitable. Last week, after the Treasury yielded to the rising demand on its own dwindling stocks by lifting the price lid after four years of control, silver exploded as the shining new commodity...
Both meetings were purposely kept informal to permit spontaneity of expression. Hence many of the participants gave a vivid portrayal of life in the Negro ghetto. Many of the complaints heard at the Roxbury-North Dorchester meeting were reiterated at the South End meeting. Feelings of alienation, bitterness, discouragement, and hopelessness were evident in the statements of almost every person. The ghetto residents told the Committee of their constant struggle against the damaging effects of both poverty and prejudice...