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...threatening to unload garbage on the Muzak man's beach. Marie does her bit by joining a major political party and then subverting the party hacks by persuading slum dwellers to organize a rent strike. There are other liberal, square attacks on the illiberal squares, among them the rout of a women's march protesting the establishment of a neighborhood clinic for drug addicts...
Though only a third of the council seats were at stake, the rout left Labor in control of only 43 out of 374 boroughs in England and Wales; only five of the 43 were in big cities...
That announcement--made on the night of King's assassination--has now been virtually forgotten, but the Administration's commitments to the general aims of the Poor People's Campaign remain the main rhetorical concern of Johnsonian liberalism. Thus a rout of the poor in the streets of the Capitol may destroy the credibility of the President's last pretensions to liberalism...
...alternative--bringing in police to rout the demonstrators--is simply too much for university administrators to stomach. Columbia proved that point perfectly. Unless administrations move quickly now to give students the representation they want--to put them in decision-making positions--the sit-ins and the take-overs will continue. And with good reason--they work...
Versatile Walter Johnson sparked the Yardlings' rout by placing first in both the long jump and 120-yard hurdles, second in the triple jump, and third in the high jump. He also anchored the winning 440 relay team...