Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston area, Oct. 15 will include a 3:30 p.m. rally on Boston Common, featuring as speakers McGovern, Howard Zinn, and labor leader Cacsar Chavez. "But the rally is not a prime concern," Zorza said. "The real significance of Oct. 15 will come with the vast involvement with the communities of Boston which we are planning." The movement is completely decentralized, with different activities planned at each participating campus...
...Martin Peretz at Harvard, and Noam Chomsky at M. I. T. It's written about in the New York Times editorialized for in the New Republic, and supported by Sen. Eugene McCarthy, Sen. Charles E. Goodell of New York, Sen. Mark O. Hatfield of Oregon and Sen. George McGovern. It's supported by the Democratie National Chairman, Sen. Fred R. Harris of Oklahoma. And there are rumors that a statement of support will be presented at today's Faculty meeting...
...surprising number of straight students are turning on too. The children of U.S. Senators George McGovern and Alan Cranston have been arrested on marijuana charges, as have the sons of California Assemblyman Jesse Unruh and Actor Darren McGavin. One of Vice President Spiro Agnew's daughters was suspended from Washington's exclusive National Cathedral School for three days last spring after an investigation was held to determine if she had been smoking pot. University of Indiana Sociologist Alfred R. Lindesmith, who has spent nearly 35 years studying drug use, contends with a measure of grim humor: "If a kid goes...
...system." He argues that at least 80% of welfare recipients now on the rolls who receive food stamps would be worse off under the new Nixon plan. Capitol Hill quickly supported Kramer's criticism. Senator Javits attacked the food-stamp restriction, and South Dakota's Senator George McGovern and Minnesota's Senator Walter Mondale rapidly petitioned the President to retain the stamps for welfare recipients. Last May, Nixon proposed a $1 billion annual increase in spending for the federal food program for the poor. The White House's present position against giving food stamps to family...
...GEORGE McGOVERN. The South Dakota Senator seems considerably less than galvanic, but in his brief bid for the nomination last summer as a stand-in for Robert Kennedy, it was clear that he was gifted with more outspoken political courage than either Muskie or Ted Kennedy. (He was one of the first Senators, for one thing, to oppose the Viet Nam war-in 1963.) He might yet find an impressive constituency among the young, this time as the substitute for another Kennedy. His appeal to the middle and right of the party, however, would almost certainly be small...