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With Cambodia and Kent State and the student strike in May, Studds waited expectantly for the onslaught of student volunteers said to be flocking to congressional campaigns. The tip-off should have come one day in late May, when organizers for Movement for a New Congress (MNC) promised 200 volunteers to canvass, and five showed up. But throughout the spring and summer Studds coordinators diligently sought out the students with little or no success. During the two-week break of the Princeton Plan, exactly five students showed up to work. Only on November 3 did students from the Boston area...
General Motors, which last week reported its alltime high loss of $77 million in the third quarter and could lose up to $1 billion in this quarter, sees its role in the strike as a Horatio at the bridge, holding fast against the onslaught of inflationary demands. The company has offered the men "58 and out," or retirement on a $500-a-month pension at age 58. G.M. argues that it cannot afford to lose too many of its most experienced hands. Fully 42,000 workers have 25 years or more of service. The public interest and the needs...
...residents of Alpine County are not amused, and so far are in a quandary about how to repel the onslaught. Last week they awoke to find their street signs altered by youthful pranksters to accommodate the prospective new citizens. One highway sign warned: "Watch for deer-hit a queer." The main thoroughfare of Markleeville, the county seat, was marked "Gay Way," and the tavern dubbed "Fairyland...
...expressed his approval of the ruling last night, saying it was about time the universities were forced to "stiffen their spines against the onslaught of those who would try to coerce the university to their wills...
...Christ's sake, Howard, get off my back." Stein and Hardy are now con spiring to persuade women employees to wear pantsuits in the office to fight the onslaught of the midi. Hardy's next plan is to wipe out neckties at the Drey fus headquarters. "By fall," he says, "we'll be wearing turtleneck sweaters...