Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...normal rites of a blast for charity-no drawings, no door prizes, no speeches. Just dancing and plenty of it. All of which was fine by Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, 58, who cheered: "This is one of the nicest I've been to." Alas, Fowler felt constrained to sit out the frugs and watusis. Remember those undignified pictures they took last February when he did a warm frug at a party with Carol Channing? "I'm just like Lindbergh," sighed Fowler. "Made one flight, became famous and quit...
...playing at all is remarkable. Seven years ago, he suffered a heart attack and was told by doctors that he would never play again. Though he has had three seizures since, he still keeps pounding away. "I've got to," he exclaims. "What am I going to do? Sit around the house and bite my nails?" Not content to be just the highest-paid ($1,500 a week) sideman in music, he left Harry James's band in March "to put music back in its perspective, to offer something else than just twang, twang, twang." His new band...
University of Michigan are demanding to be heard on academic policies, faculty tenure and educational philosophy. Princeton students sit on academic committees, recently won the right to audit courses, take the final examination, get credit if they pass, forget it if they fail. Some 800 students at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., last week burned cardboard replicas of proposed campus buildings to protest the sterile modern architecture. Students at the City University of New York staged a sit-in to demand a voice in administrative decisions, but President Buell Gallagher insisted that they were asking too much...
...have this Golden Dream, you see. I want to lead 10,000 Oakland Negroes to the Capitol for a sit-in. Then I want to stand up as a member of the House of Representatives and throw a tomato at the Secretary of Defense...
...committee will be able to arouse enough interest at Harvard so that workers can be sent to mobilize areas along the Belt which have not been organized as yet. Much of the committee's work will probably involve joint action with groups like the Cambridge mothers who staged a sit-in at M.I.T., November...