Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Left newspaper, the Guardian, has declared its opposition to "restrictions on weapons which would deprive sections of the population of a means of self-defense" while "the state itself is abundantly armed." In this, the way-out left sounds oddly similar to the way-out right, whose spokesmen claim that if guns were registered, invading Communists would merely have to get the lists from police stations in order to disarm the nation and choke off resistance...
...December, Roxbury spokesmen Bryant Rollins and George Morrison launched a broadside against the Joint Center after Harvard and MIT received $6 million from the Ford Foundation for urban research: "Research conducted by armchair theoreticians and uninvolved intellectuals is a pure waste of money and works to maintain the status quo. By [this] time, people throughout Boston--and particularly people in our black community--should be entirely fed up with researchers and social planners and urban developers telling us and our communities what our problems are and what the solutions...
...officers of the Student's International Meditation Society, which is Maharishi's subsidiary for the spread of his ideas in universities, the "dropouts" officially don't exist. Spokesmen like Jerry Jarvis, head of SIMS's American branch, soothe their eager audiences with repeated assurances that meditation works for everyone, that nothing can go seriously wrong. In fact, every novice must attend lectures given on the three consecutive nights after his initiation, which supposedly are "advance instruction," allowing one to "refine" his technique. In fact, these "lectures" were question-and-answer periods, and gave me my first feelings of uneasiness about...
...Columbia Spectator, the university daily, said last night that it had contacted spokesmen for the trustees, who said that the board had not received any official offer to talk from the Student Strike Coordinating Committee...
...traveling about one's country one encounters some of the more extreme manifestations of the American peace cult, which is so hung up on the issue of Vietnam that many of its spokesmen will frankly admit they were hoping for a sound U.S. defeat or disaster in Southeast Asia...