Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Sam Brown first started sneaking around to student leaders with his plan for a major antiwar offensive early last spring, his big worry, he confided, was building a power base that extended beyond the student movement into "Middle America" where resentment against the war was strong but not well- defined...
...their constituency slipping away from them on both the left and right flanks. The first indications of the Moratorium leaders' concern came Saturday when the Boston Globe reported that Moratorium leaders were shaving away from the November 15 March on Washington. More trouble will follow when Nixon makes his major Vietnam address November third...
LaBour left few things untouched by his theory. "Paul was a homosexual... so confused girlfriends were not a major problem for the plotters. Paul rarely saw his only surviving parent anyway, and had had few close friends... Peter Asher's sister Jane was paid a ripe sum to keep her mouth shut and pretend she was Paul's better half." It was Campbell, not McCartney, who married Linda Eastman last summer, he wrote. The fact that the Beatles have not given a concert since 1966 made things less complicated...
...recent years," says a public-relations circular the Center tried to distribute to the November Action people, "funding from the U.S. government has increased." The funds have been used "to support research originating in the Center." Vernon added that, since the Center's major grant from the Ford Foundation will expire in two years, "we have been under strict instructions from the University administration to try to reduce our dependence on that Ford grant." The federal government looms at the only major source of new research money...
...face up to the fact that their decision was determined, at least in part (a large part, I think) by the political threats emanating from the extremist wing of the Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Students Association. This is not, of course, the first time that Harvard has made a major academic decision in face of political pressures of one sort or another. But this is what happened in regard to the composition of the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies, and I wish that those responsbile for this decision (insofar as they voted for it on the floor...