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...really knew. He helped lead the Boston area boycott of Farah so that clothing workers in Texas would be able to have a union, and not merely accept what Mister Farah wanted to give them; he picketed in the rain for the Harvard printers' union last spring, trying to remind the university that human beings create and run institutions, and not the other way around. Nick wrote leaflets about the miners' working conditions and pay, and passed them out in front of Lehman Hall, trying to get Harvard people to see why they were warm and comfortable, and why other...
...taking a walk...Strauss has spoken. We will say this to Strauss--that union labor will no longer suffer sophisticated denial and discrimination in the high councils of the Democratic party. We would remind Mr. Strauss that union labor is an indispensible element of the coalition to which he will turn...
...fall of individuals like Whitney can serve only one purpose: to remind people, in the middle of a more drawn out but no less extensive stock market crash than that of 1929, of the dangers and iniquities of a system in which economic control lies in the hands of a hereditary oligarchy, a system whose basic criminality is never very far from the surface...
...experts see the dissolution of OPEC in the Saudi-led move. But the development was a rare break in the cartel's ranks. The back-door price increase should above all remind consuming nations that high oil bills are a fact for the present, and should fortify their conservation efforts. Still, as consumers harken to Secretary Kissinger's contention that the cartel can be weakened through conservation and cooperation, the new dissent in the OPEC tent could be a faintly heartening omen...
...speech to the U.N. General Assembly last week, P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat was trying to make a propaganda point, seeking to remind many Third World delegates that they too were once considered outlaws by much of the world. His statement was not merely rhetorical. Like Arafat, many of his listeners had in fact once been hunted men-and had hunted other men themselves. Terrorism is universally repugnant to standards of human decency, but in the past 25 years, sadly enough, it has been essential to the birth of many of the world's now sovereign nations...