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...colleges, however, had already voted to give up one third of their space for women residents. In Pierson and Dwight Colleges 80 per cent of the students said they would either move off-campus or crowd to make the room available. John Hersey, Master of Pierson College is sending in a plan for the consideration of the Committee allowing women residents in Pierson...
...Robert Pierson, an undercover man from the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, produced the juiciest testimony. Disguised in goggles and blue jeans and astride a rented motorcycle, Pierson had infiltrated a yippie group known as the Headhunters, and soon rose to the dizzying position of personal bodyguard to the yippie leader, Jerry Rubin. Pierson told how he had attended a yippie party in suburban Chicago where there was plenty of dope and girls, and informed the shocked committeemen, "They drank, took pills and engaged in sex." As for Rubin Pierson testified, "he said we were...
...ability at bottle-throwing in confrontations with the cops. Big Bob was gassed by the police, fought them valiantly, but was finally clubbed into submission-carrying with him into jail Rubin's tactical diary. Only then was it revealed that Big Bob was really an undercover cop, Robert Pierson, 35. Chicago police pointed ominously to such entries in Rubin's diary as a hand-drawn map of the Hilton Hotel area and a reflection that "we really should attend McCarthy rallies and recruit pro-McCarthys for our marches. This lends us the respectability of a pro-establishment group...
...This is where the America we know began," said Professor William Pierson of Williams College. "You could write the whole history of industrial architecture and technology of the 19th century right here." Professor Pierson was referring to one of the U.S.'s most imposing and historic industrial landmarks, the Amoskeag millyard, whose 139 red brick buildings line the banks of the Merrimack River for more than a mile in Manchester, N.H. This month the Amoskeag will begin to fall to the wrecker's ball. Ninety of the complex's buildings will be replaced with parking lots...
...most Americans, mills spell work, dirt and drudgery. Eager to preserve the charming houses and churches of colonial times, they have seemed downright anxious to destroy their industrial heritage. "Unfortunately, the industrialist who was made by the mills is the guy who cares the least about them now," says Pierson, who was active in efforts to preserve the mill. "All he's worried about is how to make a profit. And the biggest obstacles to preservation are the elected town officers, from the mayor on down. They are tough, pragmatic and just don't care about conserving...