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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...