Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teach the intangibles, Challenge has tried to keep its style informal. A biannual comment about a grade replaces a conventional report card. Classes are small and discipline tends to be lax. Teachers often change around their lesson plans. If students bring in an interesting magazine article, most Challenge teachers would scrap their class outline...
...most insistent declarations are from young men in their early twenties. They want a hand in running the programs. Some of the older leaders of the community refer to them as "radicals," but they dismiss the term. They are not the self-appointed spokesmen for the poor, they report. "We are the poor," says one. "Maximum feasible participation' means me, baby." They have demanded at least some power; they already have...
...beginning that the select committee would have to recommend some sort of punishment -- at least a censure. But if Conyers joined in that kind of recommendation, he faced the danger of being branded a "sellout." But he also knew that if Powell was to retain his seat, the committee report would've to be unanimous. Fearing that the committee would fragment -- and so aid those bitter-enders in the House who wanted to throw Powell out -- Conyers decided to work for unity within the committee. He would go along with proposals that censured Powell, as long as those who wanted...
...largely to Conyers back-room campaign for a unanimous report, the committee accepted the principle that the voters of New York's 18th district could choose their own representative. The committee field a unanimous report recommending that Powell take his seat and then be censured, fined $40,000, and deprived of his seniority. Conyers, after signing the report, field "additional views" -- that the committee's action deprived Powell of due process by finding him without a legal trial, that it was an unconstitutional bill of attainer...
...Conyers got what he wanted; it was at least conceivable that Powell would be sworn in. Conyers emerged as a primary architect of the save-Powell campaign, and his remarks in the report stamped him as anything but a "sellout." Perhaps most important, his personal views -- considerably and understandably more sympathetic to Powell than almost anybody else in Congress-did not pre cent him from playing a major role in de liberations with eight other representatives for more conservative than...