Word: march
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Adam Hochschild '63, a co-founder of Mother Jones magazine, began his activist career in Harvard's Tocsin organization, which pushed for an atmospheric test ban treaty and organized the first national march on Washington against nuclear weapons. Hochschild later worked for civil rights in 1964, campaigned for McGovern in 1972 and demonstrated against the Vietnam...
...meantime a presidential campaign proceeded. The march to the Democratic and Republican conventions moved along as day follows night, with just as many surprises. There were occasional moments of thrill, when it seemed for a second that something significant might just happen. Pat Robertson beat George Bush, the Vice President, in Iowa. But then Bush won in New Hampshire and everywhere else...
Instead the Board charged one of the body's permanent committees to decide how the Overseers should consider the question of divestment. In March, the standing committee decided that board members should present their views at the April meeting of the Board but not take a vote--formal or informal...
...Cambridge residents work for the University, city officials occasionally thrust themselves into Harvard's internal labor disputes. This spring, the City Council became involved in the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers' (HUCTW) fight to unionize the University's support staff. The Council passed a resolution in March that supported the would-be union and urged the University not to conduct a campaign against HUCTW...
...told New York magazine in March, "When you start off with the idea that you're going to write, you think of yourself as some kind of rebel. Then you get to New York and you see there is as much conformism within the literary world as there is in the military world or business world. The rebel in a free country is the rebel within the status group.[Clothes] are a way of treating the literary-status world as cavalierly as I or any other writer would treat the outside world...