Word: retractions
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...students, Esther John '74, Marty Reife '74, Joseph Rothschild '73.4, Mirian Sagan '75, Craig Steele '74, and Yolanda Weeks '77, said yesterday that they came to Kilson's class to ask him to retract his recent pronouncements on black admissions to college, and to apologize to Harvard's black students...
...including several Jews for Jesus, marched outside Standard's San Francisco headquarters; some advocated burning Chevron credit cards. One night bags of red dye, symbolizing blood, were spattered against the headquarters building; an anonymous caller told the Associated Press that the act was designed to get Standard to retract its policy. Across the continent, a few Exxon customers, who apparently confused the company's former name-Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey)-with California Standard, threatened to turn in their credit cards...
...Wilson, 72, who knows his own mind and does not hesitate to speak it. The habit can get him into trouble, as it did last week when he intemperately referred to Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye as "that little Jap." When incredulous reporters double-checked the remark,* Wilson refused to retract it. "That's just the way I speak," he said. Then, as though Inouye's citizenship were somehow different from his own, he added: "I wouldn't mind being called a little American." Wilson's remarks were not all that surprising: in the past...
Lewis also said that the group will ask CHUL to retract its ruling that forbids housing transfers until December...
...power, the Union must enroll more than the 500 students that it hopes to attract by March 12. And the students must remain organized around their demands beyond the lifetime of a strike if they are to be a continuing check against any tendency in the Administration to retract financial commitments to graduate students...