Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROBERT H. EBERT, Dean of the Medical School, was on a street corner in downtown Boston for three hours handing out postcards with a group of anti-war doctors. Ebert said that a large number of Med School faculty and students helped give out the postcards, which ask President Nixon to withdraw American troops. By the end of the day, the doctors had handed out more than 100,000 cards...
...Pittsfield, unknown persons set fire to the local draft board offices, destroying a number of Selective Service records. The state fire marshal's office and the FBI were called in to head an investigation of the blaze...
...Also that same day the Defense Department announced that a new low had been hit: 64 Americans had been killed in fighting that week. The headlines did not feature the number of South Vietnamese who were killed, nor the number of bodies that our troops had counted as Viet Cong killed. But if you added up the numbers in the story...
Galbraith. in a humorous but caustic speech. emphasized the very small number of Americans now supporting the war. including "the Pentagon and its servants and sycophants in Congressional committee chairmanships...
...window-breaking spree through a two-block section of Chicago's Madison St., the conclusion to four days of demonstrations, brought the total number of arrests to more than 250 and the number of police injured...