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...twenty years of thought) only to be accused of classic black emasculation. I assured him that such would not be the Harvard case: the audience would be racially mixed, and while he might anticipate familiar challenges I felt that a stimulating balance would prevail. "Are the blacks gonna picket me?" Styron asked on arrival. My God, I hoped not. "They picket me everywhere I go," he said a bit wearily. We passed a pleasant afternoon doing equal damage to a fifth of Scotch and our respective livers...
Each of the four students is charged with appearing in one of two demonstrations at Harvard last May: an obstructive picket line around University Hall which demanded full pay for Harvard employees who were striking against the war, and another picket line which temporarily blocked members of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities from entering their meeting rooms in Holyoke Center...
...demands were passed, here and at dozens, perhaps hundreds, of schools across the nation. Nixon went to the Lincoln Memorial and talked with the kids about surfing. The Faculty voted exam options; the Administration refused to honor an employees' strike; radical students set up picket lines around University Hall; the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities showed a few more students the door; and a large majority of undergraduates-myself included-left pretty quickly for home, vacation, summer jobs. Meanwhile, in South-east Asia-all over Southeast Asia-the body counts went up by a few more thousand...
...line stretched around the grimy headquarters of United Auto Workers Local 235 in Hamtramck, Mich. Occasionally, one of the men raised a clenched fist in salute, or another flashed a smile for photographers or a V-for-victory gesture, but mostly they were strangely silent. Across the street, pickets patrolled Chevrolet's gear and axle plant, carrying signs that proclaimed: UAW ON STRIKE FOR JUSTICE, or INCREASED PENSIONS or, simply, EQUITY. Said one of the pickets, Robert Jackson: "They told us the strike would last till next year. We're going to see Christmas on these picket lines...
...range of 8% to 10%. G.M.'s final offer before the workers went out amounted to 9.8%. At least for now, the Administration has no plans to use its power to try to force a settlement. But if the strike drags on until snow falls, the pickets will be faced with the prospect of doing without strike pay, and part of their anger is bound to be directed at the Government. The public will blame the Administration if widespread layoffs brought about by a long stoppage send unemployment over 6%. Unless there is an unexpected break in the strike...