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Greensboro, N.C., Feb. 1960--Four Black college students sit down at the lunch counter of a downtown Woolworth's and ask to be served. When the manager refuses, they inform him they'll stay. And they do, until closing time, when they return to their campus and recruit dozens more. The protest continues for a week, larger every day, as the Blacks and their white allies remain peaceful but assertive, and as local whites grow angry and violent...
...promise that women and minorities would get a fair share of the policymaking jobs in his Administration. As of last Friday, 130 of the positions had been filled, one-third of the total, but only two of them by blacks, one being the personnel officer who is supposed to recruit nonwhites for high-level Administration jobs. In addition, only 15 of the posts went to women...
...told by one of the candidates while he was trying to recruit me that I was naive and unrealistic for holding this view. However, when I asked why I should go along with him, the only reason he could offer me was that be thought he was the best candidate and wanted to win--and that it was absolutely essential to keep control of the club out of the hands of the Eliot House faction. For the droves of Q-World people and the many Democrats (It's an even but that there were as many Democrats as Republicans...
...been out of all proportion to their numbers. The heaviest hitters are the followers of Tony Benn and a loosely organized group of Trotskyites called the Militant Tendency. Militant Tendency runs its own weekly newspaper, maintains a full-time paid staff of 66 whose prime task is to recruit students to the cause, and controls some 2,000 regulars. Predicts M.T. Leader Ted Grant, 67, a balding South African-born revolutionary: "In another five to ten years the Marxists will have real influence in the party...
...when it resumed debate Tuesday, two professors immediately rose to challenge the study's recommendation that the University implement policies requiring departments to recruit minority and women faculty aggressively--they argued the policies would undercut the importance of merit in hiring...