Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...various sports. In addition, Wheaties has stepped up its sponsoring of major league baseball broadcasts. Wheaties' sales not only ended their decline, but have increased by 21% since 1958. For General Mills, the second biggest cereal maker (its other leading brand: Cheerios) behind Kellogg, that turnabout helped push annual earnings from $14.7 million to $23.3 million over the same period...
...future seems to hold more of the same. When the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library is constructed, the number of sightseers in Harvard Square will jump quickly. If the City does push through an urban redevelopment program for parts of the Square, even more people may come on a regular basis...
While the police were clearing the building one of the mothers shouted out of a window, "They're beating our people in here." At that point the crowd outside rushed the police, who used billy clubs to push them to the other side of Blue Hill Ave., where they broke windows and threw bricks and bottles. For the rest of the night the crowd faced police along a fifteen-block strip of Blue Hill Ave. Intermittently groups of Negroes charged across the street under a screen of debris thrown at the police. By early morning there were 1000 police, armed...
Discussion at the national convention indicated that there are important disagreements within SDS on this new approach. The effort to develop an ideology and push off-campus is supported by the national staff and most of the older chapters in Boston, Berkeley, New York and Ann Arbor. But many newer members believe that SDS should remain primarily a student organization, engaged for the most part in the tactics of confrontation. In the areas where membership is growing most rapidly, students have had little or no previous experience with radical ideas of political organizing. Many of these chapters are located...
...admit that the faculty is uniquely accessible at the Ed School, and that many members have indicated that they too see a need for encouraging a collegial atmosphere, for seriously evaluating their own educational offerings, and for creating a channel for serious student opinion on school policies. The critical push for reform has this year been organized and focused, largely through the efforts of the Student Association and the course evaluation committee, on topics of great significance for the educators themselves...