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Consider, for example, what happened to me andmy friend John G. Short '70 during the 1968 Dowsit-in. A recruiter had come to campus from DowChemical, the company that made napalm, analuminum soap made of various fatty acids which,when dropped from planes in wartime, wouldsometimes burn the backs off children. Dow bacamea symbol of greedy corporate investment in the warin Southeast Asia...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: '69 Alumnus Reflects on 'Revolution' | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...series of protests led up to the dramatic takeover of University Hall. In University Hall in 1968, students trapped a recruiter for the Dow Chemical Corporation, the manufacturer of Napalm. It was Harvard's first-ever sit-in an administration building...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Then as Now, Students Took on ROTC | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...series of protests led up to the dramatic takeover of University Hall. In University Hall in 1968, students trapped a recruiter for the Dow Chemical Corporation, the manufacturer of Napalm. It was Harvard's first-ever sit-in in an administration building...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Then as Now, Students Took On ROTC | 4/22/1994 | See Source »

...accident occurred because a homemade mixture of cleaning substances used to ignite the lions burned out of control. A Nashville fire inspector categorized the substance as a type of napalm...

Author: By Jennifer L. Burns, | Title: Campus Watch | 3/5/1994 | See Source »

...Czechs "will be forced to ... clean the shoes of German officers" ... Thursday: Visiting St. Petersburg, he claimed to have rejected a $1 billion bribe from an Asian country to help it "get some islands." He also vowed that "barbarian peoples" in southern Russia would have their villages destroyed by napalm ... Sunday: He planned to take part in a vigorous 40-km (25-mile) cross-country skiing competition in Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Vladimir Zhirinovsky Beat | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

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