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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want the world to know we stand foursquare behind our Secretary of State in this matter. But there are no easy solutions, and therefore we do not think Sen. Wallace Bennett's advice to 'send an armored division roaring into Saigon, throw a tow rope around Ambassador Bunker and Mrs. Percy, and haul them out of there' is particularly helpful...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Onward | 2/26/1968 | See Source »

...meet at Manhattan's new Mad ison Square Garden. With the support of militant Negro groups, including H. Rap Brown's ill-named Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Edwards got scores of Negroes to withdraw from the meet. For those who remained unconvinced, he announced that he would throw a picket line around the Garden, and "any black athlete who crosses that line will be in trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Track & Field: The Black Boycott | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...demonstration can best be interpreted in terms of this inner conflict. Students were confronting the University, asking it to help them or to reject them: "We want you to help us, to protect us, to throw Dow out. But if you do not, we are willing to accept your rejection, your punishment," they were saying. But the University was again able to worm its way out of the problem with a traditional ploy: it neither accepted nor rejected...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Drafting Harvard | 2/12/1968 | See Source »

...lasso and pin down the Great American Novel. He wanted to force the whole torrent of the U.S. experience between covers, from mean Brooklyn alleys to the lush farms of the heartland, from city slickers to wary countrymen-and for good measure he meant to throw in mountains, rivers and railroads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home-Grown Giant | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

Coach Bill McCurdy plans to throw everything he has at the other six competing schools (Northeastern, B.U., B.C., M.I.T., Brandeis, and Tufts), hoping to make the most of his team's sole outing before the Big Three Meet on February...

Author: By Mark R. Rasmuson, | Title: Crimson Trackmen Seek Fifth Boston Area Title | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

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