Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EASY RIDER. A major movie on an old theme-youth searching for where it's at. The props are familiar-drugs and motorcycles-but Director Dennis Hopper (who also co-stars with Peter Fonda) puts starch in what has become worn material. A brilliant performance by Newcomer Jack Nicholson, plus the use of hard-core Americans playing themselves, makes the youths' odyssey Homeric indeed...
...record numbers of faculty turned out to debate the propriety of taking a formal stand against it. The vote to condemn the war was affirmative, 255 to 81, with 150 abstentions. *Only three days before, a bomb shattered windows and dislodged masonry in New York City's major armed-forces induction center at 39 Whitehall Street. There were no injuries...
...timetable, had made opposition to the war far more respectable. To many people, the argument is no longer really over victory or defeat, patriotism or dishonor, but rather over when the U.S. withdraws and what concessions, if any, it can get in return. Timing, of course, could make a major difference to the U.S.'s future position in Asia ? but it is not a difference for which many people are eager to sacrifice lives or money...
ADAM YARMOLINSKY, professor of Law, gave the major address at a special program at Concord Academy. He said that "the only course left to us is to get out" of Vietnam, and that the money being used in the war should be spent at home...
...major event in Boston today is a massive rally on the Boston Common where Sen. George McGovern (D-S.D.) and others will speak. Over 100,000 people. including students and faculty from all Boston area colleges, are expected to attend...