Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general terms that gave little indication of when and if the proposals would be accepted. Ethos re-presented the proposals to the president with the stipulation that "if a satisfactory response is not received at this time, Ethos will (before members of all press agencies) begin a hunger strike to continue until a satisfactory answer is received." The following day the administration accepted all of the recommendations...
...restrained response of black students this fall can be explained partly by the fact that most of the more militant blacks had tired of confronting the administration. Those who had threatened a hunger strike the previous spring were now seniors. They had been pressing Wellesley for change for three years, and they were not eager to invest time and energy in an institution in which they were to spend only one more year...
Despite the strike and the sporadic battles between police and militants, Hayakawa claimed that 80% of the college's students were able to attend classes without interruption. Having proved that he could keep the campus open, Hayakawa at week's end then tried to accommodate the most reasonable of the dissidents' demands. An announcement read over campus loudspeakers declared that the college would take immediate steps to set up a new black-studies department, and that 128 additional places would be made available to minority-group students. As a further gesture, a faculty spokesman said that...
...tormented him so much that he wrote, in the November Harper's, a brilliantly brooding poetic fantasy, The Eye-Beaters. It was made particularly jolting because of Dickey's marginal notations, written with the stark understatement of a wire-service reporter. "A therapist explains why the children strike their eyes," the note explains as fact. Then...
...Purists may note that this year's total will include about a million imports, way up from 600,000 in 1965, but that scarcely diminishes the cheer at the Detroit Athletic Club. All the automakers are marketing more than last year, when a strike at Ford stalled production, and sales amounted to 8,300,000. Ford has won a 27% share of this year's bigger market, a gain of 2.8 percentage points, mostly at the expense of General Motors, whose share is 51.8%, down three points. Chrysler has advanced much in sales and a bit in market...