Word: sams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstrators had been arrested after an all-night sit-in at the Medical Center led by the Stanford Black Students Union and the Black United Front. Stanford administrators summoned police to evict a group of 50 demonstrators - who were demanding that Sam Bridges, a black janitor at the hospital, be rehired - from a hallway where they had spent the night...
...titled "Obituary U.S. Army"?and sold out the issue. "The death was announced by a general court-martial of six men," the editorial said. "Pallbearers will include Senators Fulbright, Kennedy and McGovern. Honorary pallbearers will include Moratorium marchers." The Texas senate called for a presidential pardon. Atlanta Printer Sam Yalanzon had takers for FREE CALLEY bumper stickers as fast as he could turn them out. Two radio stations in North Carolina and one in Roswell, N. Mex., announced that they would suspend broadcasts of Army public-service messages...
...black enough, some of the best-known black artists in the U.S. began to resent the prospect of being shut in a purely black context, as if they were anthropological specimens. They pulled out. Among them were Richard Hunt, Mel Edwards, Daniel Johnson, William Williams, Joe Overstreet and Sam Gilliam. Says Johnson, who happens to be an abstractionist: "From the outset of the show, we felt it was going to be disastrous because of the confusion of race and aesthetics." He sought out Dr. Ralph Bunche, Under Secretary-General at the United Nations, who sympathized with them. Bunche went with...
...Friedman sought out the job from the Republican organization, managed to raise a skimpy $200,000, and launched his campaign at a dead run. "Let's go!" says the candidate, jumping into his leased and unmarked Mercury. "Let's move!" Traveling with Friedman, reports TIME Correspondent Sam Iker, "is more like fleeing from a bank holdup than leaving a political gathering." By averaging ten hard-hitting neighborhood appearances a day for the past two months, Friedman has at least reached the point where his campaign is being taken seriously...
Abdication Announcement. He became the superstar of films, records, TV and the casinos of Las Vegas. He took over the Rat Pack. It is said that at a Democratic conclave once, he was affectionately greeted by Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, whom he told to "take your hands off the threads, creep." He was wanted both at Kennedy campaign rallies and rackets-commission hearings. He was into the airline business, missile parts, and had a personal staff of 75. Briefly he was married again, this time to Mia Farrow, who was less than half his age. Perhaps most surprising...