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District Court Judge Haven Parker '22 heard all the evidence but failed to reach a decision, yesterday, on the seven trespassing cases stemming from a standin demonstration sponsored by Boston CORE in the Harvard Square Hayes-Bickford Cafeteria, on the evening of July...
...Christian Man." Glenn is not permanently disabled, but his condition demands rest-and plenty of it. That is no way to run a senatorial primary campaign, so Glenn has assigned his pretty brunette wife Annie, 43, to act as his standin. Since Annie dislikes making public speeches, and stutters besides, she in turn has enlisted the help of her good friend Rene Carpenter, wife of Astronaut Scott Carpenter...
...Regarding your cover story [Aug. 30] on civil rights, I think it is time somebody stood up for the poor, abused, white bigots. In pressing for their constitutional guarantees, the Negro community has every moral and legal right to sit-in, swim-in, wade-in, waitin, parkin, standin, lie-in and chain-in, but they have gone too far with the pray...
...track suit. "What's he running for?" asked a bystander. Replied an actor representing Republican National Chairman William E. Miller: "Exercise." Somebody else wanted to know what freewheeling, freeloading Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. did for a living. "I have two jobs," replied Powell's standin. "Living it up and living it down...
...officials of the Pentagon, State Department, Central Intelligence Agency and other offices dealing with the life-and-death issues. The guest list had been dictated by President Kennedy; every man in the room had been required to write out an acceptance, promising personal attendance instead of sending a standin. Last week the echoes of that meeting were still sounding in Washington-and they would continue to do so for a long while...