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...coal smoke rises in thin gray wisps from stovepipes that jut through corrugated roofs. The houses are mostly unpainted clapboard decorated with weathered old Camel and Chesterfield signs; many are on stilts. The yards are strewn with empty cans, bottles, cartons, boxes. Chickens peck around them and in the meager patches of corn and tobacco plants. At the moonshiner's cabin, the approaching car sent two barefoot girls scurrying to their mother, who in turn summoned her husband. His face was a study in seams and his hands were encrusted with years of grit. He wore a green plaid...
Mercaded said at the press conference, "We feel that blacks at Harvard are not getting anywhere with petitions and discussions. Petitions and discussions have not move Harvard except for a few meager actions, so we are adopting direct action, direct tacties...
...selected Wallace, Jackson, and McGovern, stressed the importance at this stage of the game of voting for their convictions rather than of defeating the Republican candidate. Indeed, the replies to two questions in the survey show that Muskie's potential strength is greater than indicated by his meager 9% share of the Florida vote. In reply to one query, the sampling of Democratic voters named Muskie as their leading second choice for the nomination. In another response tally he emerged as the only Democrat who, if the election were held today, would defeat Nixon, albeit by a very slim...
...ENGLAND old-age pensioners--OAPs-- get all kinds of benefits in addition to their rather meager pensions. During non-rush hours they can ride public transport at half-fare, every day of the week they can take free baths (with soap and one towel provided) at public bathhouses, and before four o'clock they get reduced prices at cinemas. Each pensioner gets a little card to use when he buys fuel in the winter, paying a special cut price to the government which owns all utilities...
...Such a program would broaden the academic possibilities of the Afro-American Studies Department on the undergraduate level as well as enhance already existing programs. The lack of such facilities has made prospective faculty reluctant to come to Harvard as instructors in the department, especially in light of the meager salaries which Harvard offers...