Word: northern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Never has the hypocrisy of Northern "liberals" been more clearly evidenced than in the riot at Dartmouth when George Wallace spoke there [May 12]. Apparently the ideal of freedom of speech these students pretend to cherish so dearly can be applied only to speakers who advocate views in agreement with their own. Dartmouth students would be well advised to follow the example set by students at the University of Mississippi when they cordially received Robert Kennedy last year...
...paroled from Illinois' Stateville prison last month, but he asked if he could stay until June. He wanted to stay in-for a while, at least-so that he could eventually stay out. He was in his junior year of college, which is run at the prison by Northern Illinois University, and would miss his exams if he left...
McCalla's request was a bit unusual, but, said Warden Frank Pate, "I talked to the parole board, and they agreed to let him stay." McCalla settled down to study in the prison library. Hearing of his plight, Northern Illinois U. snipped academic red tape and gave him his exams early. He sailed through with a B average and sailed out of Stateville only 23 days late. Next fall he hopes to enjoy the real and academic freedom of an undergraduate senior, perhaps on the Northern Illinois campus...
...million Americans own 11 billion shares of 1,285 Big Board companies. Until 30 years ago, the exchange operated as a private club, and the little investor was usually at the mercy of manipulators. The 1901 clash between E. H. Harriman and James J. Hill for control of the Northern Pacific Railroad, for instance, wiped out many a small trader and nearly wrecked the exchange...
...trail. Another calls for the insertion of a sizable U.S. force, at least two divisions, into Laos to block the trail physically. The final and most far-out plan envisions a massive U.S. troops barrier drawn along the 17th parallel all the way across South Viet Nam, Laos and northern Thailand...