Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Farber's journey was the result of a controversy last Spring over Harvard's ownership of 683,000 shares of Gulf stock. Saying that Gulf's maintenance of drilling operations in Angola helps sustain Portuguese rule there, a group of 40 black students occupied Massachusetts Hall for seven days to dramatize their demand that Harvard sell its Gulf stock...
Redistribution of existing wealth is no solution, because the rich and middle classes would not give up their wealth unless it was forcibly taken from them. Thus the redistribution would imply a series of violent revolutions and wars over the ownership of oil wells, ore mines and fertile farm land. At best, even these could produce only an equality of misery...
...because he has rifled high school gym lockers and lifted a wad of bills from the wallets there, he is off in a coppertone Buick Riviera -his 14th car-"joyriding" with a tense joylessness through his slushy Michigan factory town, watching for cops, indulging his quick-fade fantasies of ownership and manhood...
...insurgents and regulars was being fought furiously and appropriately on the issue of who would be the delegates from California and Illinois. All week long, the credentials question caromed from one court to another, leaving McGovern's delegate count an open question. The crucial issue centered on the ownership of California's 271 delegates. McGovern captured all of them on June 6 according to the state's winner-take-all rule-a rule curiously at variance with the spirit of reform. In the Democratic Credentials Committee late last month, a stop-McGovern coalition led by Hubert Humphrey...
...student strike against the war. Campus outrage against the latest escalation mounted as a plethora of committees was formed and House meetings called. The campus was swamped with posters and leaflets calling on students to respond to the President's arrogance; in addition, the controversy over Harvard's ownership of Gulf Oil stock was peaking, and the black students' protest fueled the growing activist mood...