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...third-hand '52 Flexible less than half that size and one-thirtieth as expensive. It can sport every domestic convenience or be almost as spartan as a Conestoga. But nearly all of those unwieldy looking crates on wheels are habitations, as legitimately and pridefully owned as any picket-fenced, split-level ranch. With one overriding difference: If you don't like the neighbors, the weather or the garbage collection, you can roll right out. If the parking site at Paw Paw, Mich., palls, if tornadoes threaten Thunderwoman Park in Iowa, if Oso Ridge, N. Mex., turns out soso...
...Sparkman to cast the 60th vote if the 59th could be secured. Byrd had acquired a pledge of that vote from Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, who would switch from his pro-filibuster stand if, among other things, the bill were amended to outlaw labor's use of "stranger" pickets, workers from one plant who join picket lines at another. Byrd planned to send the bill back to the Human Resources Committee to add the Long provision...
...abridgement of his "right" to segregated facilities. Given the history of government actions, he'd be almost sure to win. How could a corporation give non-whites the right to strike in any effective form when it would be illegal for them to gather at once or hold a picket or demonstration? And even if corporations respected a strike, the government could deport the strikers to their Bantustans and quickly end the strike...
...ready explanations for the size of the crowd. Clearly, however, student concern about Harvard's connections with apartheid had been building--from small demonstrations of 40 to 100 students outside meetings of the Corporation's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility in February and March, to a 400-student picket of a late March Corporation meeting, to an open Corporation hearing two weeks ago that 400 people attended...
...MANNING PICKET LINES for four days at various sites throughout the University, more than 200 B&G employees joined the strike in support of the protesting carpenters. The non-carpenter B&G workers, all members of the Maintenance Trades Council of Boston (MTC), had voted on the night of March 20 to join the walkout...