Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In this cause, Julius Rudel has been tireless. A Viennese refugee from Hitler, he fled to the U.S. in 1938, earned a degree in conducting from Manhattan's Mannes College of Music. When the New York City Opera got going, so did Rudel, then 22. He was everything from...
But they later decided to make the resolution into a university-wide petition and to draft a more general petition, which based its opposition to cooperation with the draft on the belief that "the university must not be made a de facto agent of the Selective Service System."
Meanwhile, at an overflow undergraduate meeting, some 600 students agreed to take common action, but decided to meet next week to determine what that action wou'd be. After a two-hour open meeting, dominated by a whirring CBS television camera, the undergraduates shouted down a resolution which declared that...
Somehow the mud had to be drained and the particular stretch of road leveled and then covered with a packed layer of sand. We worked with some of the families concerned and suggested that they petition the city for a small bulldozer which could work in the narrow streets. The...
"If a government gets thinking that it can take 5000 people's homes without being questioned, then this isn't democracy in my mind," Mrs. Benfield told the small crowd at City Hall. She nailed a petition to the door asking the City Council to oppose the Brookline Elm St...