Word: shapin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group called Half-Fair was founded by three Princeton students, Bradley Olsen, 20, Jeffrey Stahl, 21, and Mark Smith, 19. They drafted model petitions and form letters to Congressmen, and sent them out to 120 student newspapers in all 50 states. Simultaneously, at the University of Denver, Sophomore David Shapin, 19, organized 200 of his fellow students and began corresponding with interested students, college newspaper editors and Congressmen. Bitter editorials began appearing in the campus press, and letters by the thousands rained on Congressmen and airline executives. Both the National Student Association and the Campus Americans for Democratic Action...