Word: marvinism
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...with varying degrees of fervor. At Harvard, 150 demonstrators once more ransacked the Center for International Affairs, after a march from downtown Boston. After a bitter meeting of the university senate, Columbia joined 100 other colleges in a one-day closedown last week. At the University of Maryland, Governor Marvin Mandel called out the National Guard to enforce a curfew after students repeatedly blocked U.S. 1. Last weekend in New York, 50,000 marchers?some from as far away as Nebraska?demonstrated in the rain against the bombing. Much of the protest was genial, even languid, but there were incidents...
...other campuses things were similarly bubbly, especially at the University of Maryland, where Governor Marvin Mandel gave control of the campus to the National Guard, and political turmoil blocked route U.S. 1 for the fourth consecutive year...
...effort to get the negotiations going again, Marvin Miller, executive director of the Players Association, proposed a plan that he said would not cost the owners a "damn cent" more. To meet player demands for a 17% cost of living increase in the pension plan, Miller suggested using an existing surplus in the pension fund, which is financed out of revenue from network television receipts. The owners refused and turned down a later proposal that the players return to work for two or three weeks while negotiations were going on. They objected to a clause that would have required them...
...Brooks Robinson of the Baltimore Orioles: "The only thing I can figure out is they want to bring us to our knees and break us." Added Larry Dierker of the Houston Astros: "This is some kind of plan to either kill the players' group or get rid of Marvin Miller. Miller has been very tough and the owners don't like him. They've always been able to get tough with the players in the past and there wasn't anything the players could do about it. Now, for the first time, we have a little...
...baseball strike ended in its 13th day yesterday when the owners and players agreed to start the 1972 season on Saturday without rescheduling any of the 86 games postponed by the player-walkout. Marvin Miller, executive director of the players' association asserted, "Clearly the players have triumphed in something that few people thought they could or would do, they have stood together...