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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mobs of screaming students last week swarmed through the vast Shinjuku rail way station, Tokyo's largest. Wearing plastic helmets, the lower half of their faces masked with towels as a protection against tear gas, the students scrambled over tracks and platforms, smashing train windows, disemboweling seats, splintering and setting fire to doors, benches and stairways. One rioter shinnied up a pole to smash the signal lights - he touched a high-voltage line and crashed to earth in a shower of sparks, critically injured...
This is George Wallace's second constituency in the north, and one gets the feeling that it co-exists rather uneasily with his constituency of lower-middle class wage-earners in the big industrial cities. Although they affect the same concerns--one farmer from near Harrisburg told me that he was afraid that rioters were going to come and burn down his barn--they have little else in common, and the Wallace movement is related to them in different ways. It depends on the middle-class right-wingers for money, and on the blue-collar workers for the mass support...
Coach Bill McCurdy was pleased with his team's impressive performance, noting that the times of the first four Harvard runners were considerably lower than Shaw's winning time against Northeastern over the same course earlier in the season. Time comparisons also showed that McLoone's fifth place time equalled Jim Baker's winning mark last year, the best previous Harvard time on the course...
...blue-collar working class and the lower-middle white-collar class, Riesman explained, feel threatened by the blacks or Puerto Ricans moving into their neighborhoods and puzzled by the upper-class and upper-middle-class "anti-Puritan snobs" who seem "to tolerate if not to sponsor the radicals...
...certainly do have jobs for liberal arts graduates. Of course these non-technical people start out a lower salaries -- $700 a month instead of $780--and, uh, generally they progress slower, and end up with lower salaries. Also, you'll find very few executives who were not specialists of one sort or another...