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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before I knew it. I was on strike myself, having been taught at an early age never to cross a picket line and the lesson having stuck. I wondered for a spell whether a New York City teacher ought to adhere to this rule, but then sat back and proceeded to enjoy the prospect of not attending classes-in contrast to Harvard-per-usual, where I failed to attend them but got depressed about it. As the next logical step. I began to absorb the issues of the strike-ROTC. Afro-American Studies, expansion-and could see nothing objectionable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From The End of Four Years | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

Imbued with the nationalist ideals of his father, Ho finished his schooling, taught briefly in the South and finally, about 1914, shipped out to Europe. For several years, he held a series of odd jobs, including a spell as a pastry cook under the famed French Chef Escoffier at London's Carlton Hotel. In Paris, Ho worked as a gardener and photo retoucher. In 1917, so one account goes, he worked his way across the Atlantic as a merchant seaman, visiting New York, Boston and perhaps San Francisco. One source says that Ho worked briefly as a waiter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE LEGACY OF HO CHI MINH | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...institutions, are pleased with the way the court-injunction method worked last spring and plan to repeat the tactic if faced with another building takeover. Yale's strategy, which has been cleared by the faculty, calls first for negotiation, then for police. Many college presidents are reluctant to spell out their tactics clearly in advance, presumably on the theory that uncertainty keeps dissidents off balance. Granville Sawyer, president of predominantly black Texas Southern University, for example, says that his approach involves "a gradual increase of pressure and force until the situation is resolved. I won't tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prospects for Peace, Plans for Defense | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...many of the new groups are reaching back into the past for their material. Cat Mother and the All Night News Boys' Good Old Rock 'n' Roll is on the charts. Creedence Clearwater Revival (TIME, June 27) has recut Screaming Jay Hawkins' I Put a Spell on You and Little Richard's Good Golly Miss Molly, and Bobby Vinton is redoing To Know Him Is to Love Him, Phil Specter's first hit, recorded originally in 1958 by the Teddy Bears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: Return of the Big Beat | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...across"; "Don't dress like a slob." It also explained how to act: "Don't talk to workers like you know everything and they know nothing." It summed up the program's purpose: To get across "the identity of interests of students and workers" and spell out "the relationship of the Viet Nam and the other imperialist wars to their immediate demands, to the fact that they and their sons die in the war, that it is a war for the rich-the class perspective." During the workin, students were to challenge racism among white workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: How Radicals Spend Their Summer | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

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