Word: michael
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bootstrap, announced: "I've brought some big newsmen along so they can write some more about what's not going on." One Watts resident was not having any: "We're tired of being treated as news fodder," she said. "Why are you here?" Atlantic's Michael Curtis answered: "Don't you think there is some value in finding out what the problem is?" Practically in chorus, the audience responded angrily, "Baby, everyone knows what the problem...
...reporters agreed that they had learned quite a lot. "I'm an editor," Michael Curtis reflected, "and my job is behind the desk. This brought me jowl to jowl with people and places I would otherwise have never seen. These people have decided to take charge of their own lives." Said John Herbers, a veteran civil rights reporter: "The situation changes so fast you have to keep going back. I was surprised at the extent of activity in these communities. Also surprising was the unity among them on what their purpose is, despite organizational fragmentation...
...Michael W. Hyde '69 and Frederick G. Fisher '69, spokesmen for the group, said that they are organizing seniors throughout the college to participate in the demonstration. They said the number of people who will participate depends upon the disciplinary action taken by the Committee of Fifteen. Hyde predicted that perhaps 400 seniors will join the demonstration if the Committee expels anyone...
...feeling of this court that the jury was right," he explained. "I find no reason to change my mind now." Sirhan smiled, shrugged his shoulders and was taken to San Quentin Prison's death row. There he will await the outcome of lengthy appeal proceedings. Defense Investigator Michael McCowan quoted Sirhan as saying: "Well, now the real battle begins...
Another group--separate from the Ad Hoc Committee--is being organized to take more militant action at commencement. "Our plans include the burning of diplomas and a statement telling just why we are taking the action," said Michael Hyde '69, one of the organizers of the as yet unnamed group...