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...learning curve is huge,” Kidd says. “I feel as if however ragtail we looked in the beginning, we’ve been able to do what students needed to get activities going...
Students for a Democratic Society is an agglomeration of 70,000 radical reformers and sometime revolutionaries that sounds fearsomely monolithic but is actually as disorganized and ragtail as Coxey's Army. At the S.D.S. national convention in Chicago last week, the internal dissension was so severe that the five-day meeting promised to be the most chaotic in S.D.S.'s seven-year history-and possibly the last...
...CRIMSON played its first game with a ragtail band of Yalies way back in 1874, exactly one year before the initial varsity contest. Inflamed by their ignominious 23-2 defeat, the men from Eli banded together the very next year to form the Yale newspaper, hoping the symbol of formal organization would help lure more agile atheletes to their ranks...
...would recall him. He sarcastically asked his Waidist cabinet members just how they reconciled their party's anti-Communist position with their Foreign Minister's "making Communist propaganda." Moreover, said Farouk, he didn't like this business of allowing political parties to form their own ragtail "liberation battalions." He wound up by telling the Wafdists that he thought their party was shrinking in power...
Silent Parade. Interior Minister Serag el Din called in the Cairo press, read them a lecture on falsifying the news with their absurd stories of British atrocities. He announced that the ragtail "liberation battalions" would be absorbed into the regular army, where the authorities could keep an eye on them...
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