Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prevailing concerns of her fellow workers. "I know for a fact that I have already been replaced," she said. "The big problem here is that people just don't know the facts." The picket line--normally staffed by no more than five people--runs from 8:30 a.m. until midnight, 99 hours a week. For a while, students had been joining in the lines; now, the newest Vise initiative calls for the stepped up use of library facilities in order to force an early settlement. Previously, Vise members had advised fellow students, with a remarkable degree of success, to boycott...
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Delta Alpha, Sigma Nu, Kappa Kappa Epsilon...they all seemed the same by midnight when the frats overflowed into the street, making one big party, an orgy of clashing bands rowdy frat guys and tipsy visitors. Somehow that Ivy League aura had vanished. This was a mammoth beer blast to rival any Big Ten post-game show. And that was after a losing effort on the gridiron...
...suspected leftists were rounded up and herded into detention camps. Political parties and any gathering of more than five persons were banned; newspapers, magazines and broadcasts were placed under censorship; and membership in Communist organizations was made punishable by death after trial by courts-martial. A midnight-to-dawn curfew was established on the night of the coup, then dropped-after revelers who ignored it were shot. Constitutional rule will eventually be restored, said Sangad, but only "when the nation is ready...
will go to any length-and depth-for a good picture, a fact she proved during a foray into Pennsylvania coal country in search of women miners. Joining a 4 p.m.-to-midnight shift near Johnstown, Bergen rode 800 ft. into the earth for a work session with her subjects. Her enterprise was not universally approved. "When I returned the next day, the foreman met me at the entrance and said the men had threatened to strike if I went back down," said Candice. "The men feel that their decades in the mines have been obliterated by the media...
...perennial socialites have surrendered to fatigue and gone to bed. Listen and look closer. Strains of a cut from Jethro Tull's "Aqualung" hit you. Follow them to their source, where, on the fourth floor of "C" entry loom two shadows illuminated by the last drops of the midnight...