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Also addressing the rally were Sumner Rosen, professor of Economics at Simmons, and Michael Hercovits, a sophomore at Brandeis. At the close of the meeting a telegram calling upon Clark Kerr and Governor Edmund Brown to drop all civic and academic charges against the demonstrators was unanamously approved
...four flights of stairs in the administrative office building, clubbing some of them, can be attributed only to obstinacy and bad faith on the part of Kerr's administration. The action by police led a meeting of more than 800 of Berkeley's 1200 faculty members to send a telegram to Governor Edmund Brown, condemning his use of the Highway Patrol. The same meeting urged a further liberalization of the University rules on political activity, and the establishment of a subcommittee of the Academic Senate to act as an appeals board for students charged with violating campus political regulations...
Meanwhile, a virtually complete general strike at the University was underway outside. With the campus virtually paralyzed, an ad hoc assembly of nearly 900 faculty members sent a telegram to Gov. Brown protesting the use of police on campus
...millions of Americans, the 113-year-old Western Union Telegraph Co. means bicycling messengers in green uniforms, miles of wire-carrying poles along railroad tracks and yellow shafts of light from all-night offices. The telegram business still accounts for more than half of the company's revenues, but it is dwindling along with the poles and messengers. Venerable Western Union is transforming itself into a new kind of telecommunications giant, using the latest pushbutton automation to provide a range of services as broad as electronic wizardry allows. This week, from the top of its 24-story brick-pile...
...pocket of his tan twill trousers, Lyndon carried Barry Goldwater's belated and somewhat snarly telegram of concession. It said: "Congratulations on your victory. There is much to be done with Viet Nam, Cuba, the problem of law and order in this country, and a productive economy...