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...Katz and three other Lowell House students wrote a letter to the Crimson blasting Gill and the other Masters for refusing to listen to "an overwhelming majority of Harvard undergraduates." They are planning something big for next year. At the least, a concerted drive, using the HUC as the spearhead, at the most, massive civil disobedience. Just what kind of disobedience no one will say. They don't want to antagonize the Masters just...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Parietals Battle of '67 Might Be Won Next Year | 5/24/1967 | See Source »

...vanished on vacation, reappearing with an eye-popping blonde fiancée named Erika Mattfeld. They were married Feb. 18 under guard of state troopers armed with tommy guns. His most flamboyant gesture came in his oft-declared war on crime. Kirk recruited a big private-detective agency to spearhead his offensive, and although its accomplishments so far have been nil, Floridians can talk of little else-some officials have charged that their phones are being bugged and their footsteps dogged. Says Orange County Democratic Chairman William Turnbull: "Kirk captured the imagination of the people. He lives a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida: A New Way of Operating | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...Information Service reported: "The Commission on Human Relations of the Easton-Phillipsburg area invited The Crowning Experience to spearhead the ideological offensive of MRA in the Lehigh Valley.... Its chairman said, "This film is the most moving experience in motion pictures I have thus far encountered...

Author: By James K. Glassman, COPYRIGHT 1967 BY THE HARVARD CRIMSON, INC. (FIRST OF TWO ARTICLES) | Title: MRA: Circumlocutions of Absolute Honesty; New York to Investigate Financial Status | 3/25/1967 | See Source »

...battle for control of China spread through the nation's cities last week as two irregular armies squared off against each other. On one side swarmed the Red Guards, the teenage, slogan-drunk students turned loose upon the land by Mao Tse-tung to spearhead his fanatical Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Opposing them with increasing vehemence were urban workers, resentful of the Red Guards' noisy and disrespectful descent on their factories in the name of Mao-think. The workers were encouraged in their opposition by much of the Communist Party apparatus still loyal to China's President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: The Cities Say No | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

Shortly after the Hanoi-Haiphong bombings, a corner of the Adams-for-Senate office in Boston debated whether or not their candidate should spearhead a sit-in at the Federal Building to protest the new escalation...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: The Third Man: | 7/12/1966 | See Source »

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