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...short-order restaurants, the frank still emits a sharp democratic zonk, redolent of exotic spices and domestic meats. To most Americans, the hot dog is the equivalent of Proust's madeleine; it triggers memories of afternoons in the bleachers, and languorous Sundays spent lolling on pic nic grounds. At 170 calories, it is modest enough to be included in a dietary lunch; yet the gourmet James Beard has wrapped a recipe around it: choucroute àl'sacienne. (Translation: sauerkraut with local sausage. Beard prefers franks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Decline and Fill of the American Hot Dog | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

...original proposal--initiated by the West Coast founders--was for a fairly centralized National Interim Committee (NIC) that would aid in organizing new chapters and publicize NAM by publishing a national newspaper. In addition, the founders proposed that the conference select three program priorities which all chapters would work on in addition to local projects...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: NAM: A Port Huron for the Seventies? | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

...conference limited the power of the NIC--which will serve until NAM's official 'coming out' at a founding convention in June--by specifying that regions will form their own conferences instead of allowing the NIC to organize regional conferences and by providing that the newspaper be published in a different city from the NIC headquarters. The conference also required that at least 7 of the 13 NIC members be women--in response to charges by people of both sexes--that NAM was dominated...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: NAM: A Port Huron for the Seventies? | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

...conference elected 13 delegates (seven of whom the conference voted must be women), to a National Interim Committee (NIC) to conduct national business until the NAM founding convention in June...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: NAM Conferees Back Socialism for America | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

...RATE, as everyone knows, RYM walked out of the convention last June and took half of SDS with it. A few weeks later Klonsky resigned from the NIC (National Interim Committee) because of political differences with the NO, now led by Mark Rudd. Together with Avakian he has formed RYM-2 on the West Coast, which is concentrating on building a mass-based anti-war movement...

Author: By Jim Frosch, | Title: Brass Tacks Education of SDS | 10/4/1969 | See Source »

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