Word: requests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school upheaval started when blacks at Dorchester's English High School demanded permission to form an all black Afro-American Club and to wear African dashikis instead of the customary coats and ties. English's headmaster granted the dress request, but the School Department refused to allow the blacks to form their own club. The blacks walked out, and were joined by white students protesting the coat and tie rule...
...very much a symptom of the problem that the Crimson is able to speak with the President of Harvard College about the housing crisis but that the people of Cambridge and this Housing Convention are not. It is also worth noting the difference in M.I.T.'s response to our request for a meeting. The Coordinating Committee is now arranging with Dr. Killian a meeting to discuss the substantial issues raised by the resolutions with him. We simply want to see Harvard begin to assume its responsibilities and begin to act, immediately and decisively and constructively, to solve the crisis. Nothing...
Deep as those cuts were, they were superficial compared to gouges made in other programs. For foreign aid, the House irresponsibly appropriated only $1.6 billion, lowest sum in the program's 21-year history and $1.3 billion less than President Johnson's bare-bones request. Development loan funds were hacked from the $765 million asked for by the Administration to only $265 million. The Alliance for Progress got only $290 million of a requested $625 million, which touched off bitter complaints all over Latin America...
...Yale Daily News disclosed yesterday the removal of a six-page article on Dr. Benjamin Spock from the June issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine at the request of Yale President Kingman Brewster after it had already been set in type...
Both Jones and a spokesman for Brewster told the Associated Press yesterday that the article had indeed been scrapped at Brewster's request. The new associate editor of the Alumni Magazine also confirmed the story...