Word: mid-august
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...Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Chinese army officers forced Ma and his colleagues to clean toilets and break stones in the morning, study the thoughts of Mao Tse-tung and write "confessions" till late at night-an exercise that lasted 50 days. Allowed to return to his music academy in mid-August, he was then set upon by the Red Guards and exposed to the humiliation he described in New York...
Apparently, UPO is not big enough to handle all of these jobs. This summer's employees of Head Start went without paychecks until mid-August because of a snafu at UPO. Applicants for jobs in Step-Up, a Recreation Department program, were not even interviewed until the end of June, after most people's summer plans were made. At one UPO office some thirty people, apparently all scheduled for interviews at the same time, waited two hours for staff members (of whom there appeared to be only three) to talk to them. Those remaining at six o'clock were informed...
Stokely Carmichael, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, brought a simple message with him when he visited Boston in mid-August: the leadership and support of the different organizations in the ghetto must be controlled by NegroesOver and over, he repeated the theme, "We must do it ourselves...
...George Talk. Griffin, of course, is still a long way from winning. Williams, 55, who is one of the most effusive, effective factory-gate-and-street-corner glad-handers in memory, has been out of commission since mid-August, when he underwent a painful operation for kidney stones; he has been even more pained by his doctor's continuing insistence that he spend most of each day in bed. All the same, Williams says he is not worried about last week's poll: "The only thing that counts is the poll on Nov. 8. When the people compare...
...mid-August the NFWA formally merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, a small allied union composed primarily of Filipino fieldworkers, and the two joined...