Word: rossing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, said yesterday the election of Mitchell K. Ross '78 represents the final stage of Harvard Hillel's three-part transition from a rigid president-vice president structure to the more cooperative system of a chairman elected by the 12-member coordinating committee...
...first week we heard how Fred Ross Sr., himself an organizer since the late 30's found Cesar Chavez and brought him into the Community Service Organization. Cesar Chavez eventually became president of that organization, but he gave it up in 1962 and went back out to the fields, to Delano, to organize farmworkers. When he began he could not even mention the word "union", because farmworkers' experiences had been so bad with unions in the past; the first thing he was able to organize was a "death fund". When someone died, there was usually not enough money...
...high school," he recalls, "I had dreams of going to a football school. Notre Dame contacted me, but they said I was too small. Besides, they had Ross Browner and a few others that year, so they didn't need a defensive...
...children wrenched steel shutters and grilles from storefronts with crowbars, shattered plate-glass windows, scooped up everything they could carry, and destroyed what they could not. First they went for clothing, TV sets, jewelry, liquor; when that was cleaned out, they picked up food, furniture and drugs. Said Frank Ross, a black police officer in Bedford-Stuyvesant: "It's like a fever struck them. They were out there with trucks, vans, trailers, everything that could roll...
...remain as skeptical as ever about Laetrile. Indeed, in still another refutation of claims about the substance, scientists at the Battelle Memorial Institute reported that new experiments with mice showed Laetrile offered no benefits whatsoever in the treatment of either breast or colon cancers transplanted from humans. Dr. Joseph Ross, a U.C.L.A. professor of medicine, also raised the "strong possibility" that long-term ingestion of Laetrile could result in chronic poisoning similar to that from the starchy cassava root, which, like Laetrile, contains cyanide...