Word: mets
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...Party, the Communist Party of the U.S.A., the Student Mobilization Committee and the Urban Coalition. Its leaders tend to be older and in some cases more militant and more radical than the Moratorium leadership. Some of them helped organize the protests during the Democratic Convention in Chicago, and they met last summer in Cleveland to plan mass "Marches Against Death" for November in Washington and San Francisco. To many of those active in the "New Mobe," the war is just one of the reasons for protest. They prefer dramatic tactics and appeal particularly to big-city and campus leftists...
...most militant steering-committee members called a hurried meeting in Washington and voted to exclude businessmen and politicians from the speakers' platform for the Washington rally. Too many such men, they argued, had either profited from or approved war appropriations. When Moratorium leaders heard of the action, they met with some of Mobilization's less radical leaders and argued forcefully that such a move would alienate all the politicians and average citizens who had been recruited by M-day. They won the argument. Both groups held press conferences to announce that each supported the other's November...
...press releases were late and uninformative. Now Gerry is moving to Rome as special assistant to U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin. In her place the First Lady has named Connie Stuart, a pert redhead who at 31 is one of the youngest ever to handle the White House job. Connie met the Nixons last year when her husband, also a presidential staffer, was doing yeoman campaign work around the country. But her appointment is no political payoff. After five years' experience in public relations with two New York firms, she seems well equipped to give the First Lady...
...society: its hedonism, its concern with individual "identity." The current conceptions of what causes homosexuality also pose a fundamental challenge to traditional ideas about the proper role to be played by all men and women. In recent years, Americans have learned that a man need not be a Met pitcher or suburban Don Juan to be masculine: the most virile male might well be a choreographer or a far-out artist. Similarly, as more and more women become dissatisfied with their traditional roles, Americans may better understand that a female can hold a highly competitive job?or drive a truck?...
...Haven, the nation's fifth-ranked defense against rushing met the country's number-one runner, and the Bulldogs succeeded in halting Cornell's Ed Marinaro for a 17-0 Yale victory over...