Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet news outlets gave the initial meeting, scant notice. Radio Moscow waited until midnight before announcing that the meeting had ever been held...
After several days of meetings, the girls decided that a hunger strike was their most efficient means of protest, since--unlike a sit-in--it would not interfere with the College's business. On midnight Wednesday, May 10, they stopped eating...
...Thus, at midnight on May 11, 15 girls went on strike and were joined by eight more the next day. They pledged to eat nothing until the administration agreed to let every senior have her own apartment. Reporters and friends who talked with the girls during the course of the strike remarked that they seemed "driven by some freakish, martyr-like vision of their cause. They talk as if they're a besieged people." In retrospect, it seems obvious that the girls' wrath far outran their reason, but during those five days, they were real celebrities in the Quad. Refusing...
...Midnight Idol," your cover story on the Johnny Carson phenomenon and on television in general [May 19], was excellent. Carson is a refreshing breeze in what is literally a wasteland, with the exception of an occasional documentary or sports event...
...Potatoes Group. Racing against a self-imposed negotiating deadline of midnight, May 14 (which they missed by 24 hours), delegates battled through four days and nights of virtually continuous wrangling to compromise their differences...