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...group-many of whose members were active in the now-defunct November Action Coalition-is attempting to set up a citywide mass meeting which would convene and decide upon action to follow an escalation in much the same way as "The Day After" (TDA) march followed the trial of the Chicago eight...
Suzanne S. Paul, a 1961 graduate of a now-defunct Business School program for women, brought charges against the club and its director of placement, Carl R. Boll, after he refused to admit her to an October 22 meeting of about 30 men discussing job placement. The City Commission on Human Rights will hold a fact-finding hearing on the incident this morning...
Died. Helen Rogers Reid, 87, president, then chairman of the board (1947-55) of the now-defunct New York Herald Tribune; in Manhattan. Wife of the Trib's Editor-President Ogden Reid, she made her name on the business side as a crack ad saleswoman who had, as one colleague put it, "the persistence of gravity." She went to work in 1918, was responsible for doubling linage by 1923, and after that headed the ad department until 1947, when she assumed command at the death of her husband. In politics, she continued the Trib's tradition of moderate...
...efforts to remold China's children. The Communist Youth League, disbanded by the Red Guards and now being revived, is aimed at the 14-to-25 age group. For those in the seven-to-14 category, Peking has created the Little Red Soldiers organization, a successor to the now-defunct Young Pioneers. The Little Red Soldiers already have their own pantheon of heroes. Most notable are the five children who are said to have perished while fighting a forest fire. Radio Peking solemnly insists they leaped into the flames snouting "Long live Chairman Mao!" and clutching their little...
...similar proposal last December by the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, approved by the now-defunct Committee on Houses, noticed the group $1.57 per student for four meals rebated, May said. With 400 signatures now on the petition, the NAC plan could net the Panthers as much as $3300 by those figures-if put into effect by next Wednesday. Each week's delay would reduce that by about...