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...Valhalla Exchange, Patterson...
...extensive press coverage enabled the black movement to bring its just grievances before the American public. Southern editors vividly recall that in the 1950s and 1960s there was heavy public pressure to limit coverage of black demonstrations on the ground that such publicity stirred up more trouble. Recalls Eugene Patterson, editor of the St. Petersburg Times: "A large number of readers wrote to tell newspapers that if they quit covering King, he would go away." But the press continued to report the demonstrations, which helped Young, King and others to achieve substantial strides toward equality...
Some alumnae are reluctant to give to the Fund since they feel that Harvard is absorbing Radcliffe, but most alumnae still believe that "Radcliffe has a purpose and will maintain itself," Susan Patterson Harding '64, co-chairman of the Radcliffe Fund Committee, said yesterday...
...this year will be in the coal fields, where chances of a disastrous strike are great. One reason: United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller is fighting a bruising battle to retain his post in a June election against the union's secretary-treasurer, Harry Patrick, and Lee Roy Patterson, another union official. Whoever wins, the souped-up promises of the campaign-fatter pay, expensive safety improvements-will have to be included in the union's demands and could cause coal operators to resist...
Miller is the favorite in the race, though not by a wide margin. Patrick is a charismatic speaker who will attract a large number of young miners disenchanted with Miller's leadership. Patterson will pick up the sizable bloc (better than 40% of the vote in 1972) that supported Boyle. What worries union progressives is the possibility of a split vote between Miller and Patrick that would give the election to Patterson. "That will return us to the dark ages," says one Patrick supporter...