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...steps of University Hall were crowded yesterday with administrators squinting through the bright sunlight at the United Committee of Third World Organizations's Mem Church rally. "Oh come on," said one, reading over the committee's leaflet. "Nobody ever thought they'd get that center...
Organizers of the meeting plan to make a tape of the proceedings "without any gaps or hums" to send to the House Judiciary Committee, the coalition's promotional leaflet states. Thousands of these leaflets have been distributed in the Boston area, David Ozonoff, a spokesman for the MIT. Peace Coalition, said yesterday...
...Importing Rhodesian Products supports a Racist Government," the leaflet pronounced in large letters. "Refuse to Unload Rhodesian Goods!" According to the American Friends Service Committee, the African Liberation Support Group, and the other organizations which had set up the demonstration, the Sun carried goods exported from Rhodesia. The picketers had come out so early this bright morning to urge the dockworkers to refuse to unload the ship and to support an international boycott against goods from Rhodesia...
...Real Dent. For its authors and editors, Scott, Foresman has prepared a detailed leaflet called Guidelines for Improving the Image of Women in Textbooks. Among these guidelines are suggestions like "Avoid constructions implying that women, because they are women, are always dependent on male initiative." For example, rather than stating "The ancient Egyptians allowed women considerable control over property," a historian is requested to write: "Women in Egypt had considerable control over property." Macmillan and several other major publishers are revamping their textbooks, but no real dent has yet been made in their backlists, where sexism infects thousands of titles...
Then Monday, as the news of the planned lecture circulated, attacks multiplied. A group of 20 professors calling themselves the Harvard Committee Against Racism came out against the debate and threatened to leaflet the debate if it took place as scheduled. Harvard-Radcliffe SDS announced it would circulate a petition against the debate...