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...raising-after the National Council of Negro Women gave the co-op 50 pigs, the farmers set up a "pig bank." Farmers may borrow one of the pigs if they return a certain portion of the first litter to the central pig supply...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Black Southern Farmers Need Money To Buy Land in Mississippi for Co-Op | 3/10/1970 | See Source »

...Indians still occupies the abandoned federal prison at Alcatraz, which the Indians propose to use as a cultural center and are willing to buy?for "$24 in glass beads and red cloth." Says one of the invaders: "Alcatraz is still better than most reservations." Angered at the whites who litter their beaches with beer cans and broken bottles, Indians in the state of Washington set up road blocks and closed 50 miles of seashore. A group of 50 Passamaquoddy Indians in Maine charged motorists fees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Angry American indian: Starting Down the Protest Trail | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

...litter was in the backyard of a dilapidated ten-room house that three college students rent from the authority for $75 a month. The sanitation crew assigned to the rubbish removal somehow got their instructions mixed up and, in a burst of zeal, cleaned out the inside of the house instead of the grounds. When the students returned last week after the Christmas holidays, they discovered the loss of all their furniture, an expensive camera, three stereo sets, records, books, a guitar, a tape recorder, term papers, research notes and pages of unpublished poetry. What remained untouched was the offending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bureaucracy: Winter Housecleaning | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

...statement seems mostly to recognize athletes growing desire to be independent. Besides supporting Yale and recommending that the NCAA endorse a proposal that would open all Mac?ab?ah Game sports to college athletes, the eight presidents partially litter their ban on post-season competition for individual athletes. If a senior has completed the regular season in his sport, and receives an invitation to appear in an all-star game, be may accept, provided that participants are not paid for their services...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 1/8/1970 | See Source »

Mystical Transition. It was certainly a different way to start a college. When the students and teachers arrived, Chancellor McCoy got them together in the camp's main meeting room, told them where they would sleep and eat, and urged them not to make too much litter. Then he walked out. They had no organization. They had no curriculum. Completely the opposite of the typical college experience in which you are presented, on arriving, with a series of established slots, and told to decide which one you will wedge yourself into for the next four years. Here the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: The New Eden | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

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