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...unusual sight of red and tan kilts worn by 21 members of the amateur Stuart Pipe Band and the equally strange wail of bagpipes drew passers-by from Plympton St. and the largest crowd of Quincy House students and affiliates ever to attend the event...

Author: By Marilyn L. Booth, | Title: Dunn Exorcises Ghosts, Spirits In Ceremony at Quincy House | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

Carter last week spoke to his largest crowd of the entire campaign season: 70,000 farmers attending a "farm fest" on a muddy field in Minnesota's rural Lake Crystal. Introduced rousingly by Senator Hubert Humphrey, who accused the Ford Administration of "violating the law" in imposing embargoes on foreign grain sales, Carter assailed Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz and used a subtle "we" to identify with his attentive audience. "I never met a farmer who wanted a handout," Peanut Processor Carter said. "I never met a farmer who wanted the Government to guarantee him a profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Ford and Carter Prep for D-Day | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

Bull Connor has since died -and so has Birmingham's bitterness. It is significant in the contemporary South that Alabama's largest city (pop. 295,686) has become a model of Southern race relations. Legally, everything is integrated; blacks, who make up 40% of the population, work and shop and dine freely downtown. The only trace of the old "colored" fountains is scars on the walls where they were removed. No serious racial incident has occurred since the First Baptist Church voted six years ago not to admit two blacks as members. Even then, the pastor and many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNITIES: A City Reborn | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

Field said she hopes to get some of that punch from the largest contingent of field hockey playing freshmen ever to attend Radcliffe. Field expects 18 freshmen, many of whom look "very good on paper," to provide some of the offense the stickpeople lack...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Field hockey: Another Building Year | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...international structure of SftP presently consists of a more or less informal communication among about 40 locations, mostly in the U.S., with active chapters in Los Angeles, Berkeley, Chicago, Ann Arbor, and Stony Brook, N.Y. The largest and most active chapter remains in Boston where the organization's bi-monthly magazine Science for the People is published. Local headquarters are at 897 Main Street in Cambridge, just off Mass Ave, halfway between Harvard...

Author: By Peter Frawley, | Title: Keeping science accountable | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

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