Word: standings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clearly, boycotting the CRR now has a practical rather than a purely symbolic rationale. Over the past week, several House committees and the Student Assembly have already made their stand clear by voting overwhelmingly to boycott the CRR. Although the freshman class has voted not to boycott the CRR, most Houses have decided to continue the upperclass boycott. We applaud the Houses' action, and urge the remaining House to follow suit, sending a message to the Faculty that it must accept the entire set of reform proposals before students can begin to acknowledge the legitimacy...
Eastman gave an untraditional reason for his decision to seek the post--he hopes the marshals will take a stand on South Africa. "I think potentially the class marshals could do something," he said. "Being in a fund-rasing position we might have some influence," Eastman added...
Callaghan is also being helped by an embarrassing internal feud within the Conservative Party. Former Prime Minister Edward Heath, whom Thatcher deposed as party leader three years ago, broke with party policy by openly sup porting Callaghan's wage stand, even as he campaigned for the Tory candidate in the Scottish by-election. Conservative M.P. George Gardiner, a Thatcher brain-truster, last week complained that "receiving support from Ted Heath is like being measured by an undertaker." A Labor Party spokesman had a quick retort: "Perhaps the result means that rank-and-file Conservatives prefer their former leader...
Then the call: "Jump run." We line up at the door. The first two members of our 16-man team are hanging out of the plane, grabbing the fuselage so we can go together. I stand, back to the open door, the balls of my feet balanced on the frame, feeling the surge of wind across my back. "Ready!" yells the team captain. "Ready!" we reply...
Soon after dawn, cleaning women used to stand in a row on Burnside Avenue in The Bronx, waiting for well-heeled Manhattan matrons to drive up and hire them for a day's work. "Often they'd ask to see your knees," recalls Geraldine Miller of those lineups in the '30s. "The women with the worst scarred knees were hired first because they looked like they worked the hardest." Their pay for an eight-hour day: 30? to 40?. Today their pay may be as much as $40 a day, and it is the employers who queue...