Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which lasted from about 5:30 p.m. until the building closed at midnight, followed a demonstration by 700 people in front of Low Library, where William J. McGill, president of Columbia University, was meeting with the board of trustees...
Before the march, its organizers had predicted a turn-out between several hundred and 1000 protesters. No one had been prepared to handle a crowd of the size that ultimately assembled in the Yard at about midnight. Equally important, many of the United Front leaders had seemed to hang back, debating over who might take the responsibility of announcing a sit-out. The best solution, some decided, would be for the demonstrators "spontaneously" to stage a sit-out on their own, without any single leader putting his or her neck on the line by urging the crowd to participate...
Laboratories throughout the West and Midwest, the regions where most Mexican grass is consumed, reported they were overwhelmed with requests to test marijuana samples. In Los Angeles, Disc Jockey Jim Ladd urged members of his post-midnight audience to telephone President Carter with their complaints about paraquat; within an hour, almost a thousand Southern California calls flooded into the White House. More than 5,000 marijuana samples were mailed to PharmChem laboratories in Palo Alto, Calif., where 22 new employees have been hired to keep up with the testing demand; last week the lab reported traces of paraquat...
Leaders of the United Front, the coalition of student groups that organized the torchlight parade and midnight rally, said they expected no more than 1000 students--the same number that had attended Monday's rally--to show up in the Yard...
...century's approach more tasteful. The Leverett House production is fast-moving, and the actors fill it with moments of genuine horror and occasional humor as well. The Changeling is playing at the Leverett Theater tonight, Friday and Saturday (April 27, 28, and 29) at 8 p.m., with a midnight show on the 28th...