Word: thursdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both White and Mayer were encouraged by the response to last Thursday's fast--in which 2200 students participated--and see it as an indication that students are concerned about the world food situation. But there is a difference between passing up one meal and making a fundamental change in eating habits, and it is not yet clear how far students are willing to go. Even if they are ready to take the step to meatless days, the plan is not an automatic solution to the food crisis. There remain the enormous problems of transporting grain from rich countries...
...follow-up to Thursday's nationwide World Harvest Fast, members of the Harvard-Radcliffe South Asian Society and a Yale group led by the Rev. William Sloane Coffin will man booths at gates one and six of the stadium where they will accept donations...
...spent Wednesday night shackled to the door again, but on Thursday the questioning was accompanied by only a little torture. And then came help. U.S. Consul Richard Brown in Recife was finally given permission to see me. My friends had alerted him to my disappearance. It took him three days to get Brazilian authorities to honor an international agreement granting foreigners the right to see diplomatic representatives of their country. On Friday Ambassador John H. Crimmins officially protested my treatment to the Brazilian Foreign Office in Brasilia. After five more days, Brown managed to get Colonel Meziat to provide...
...three sources--all Cambridge civic officials--said Thursday the report contains conclusions "extremely adverse" to the Kennedy Library. The sources had no specific information, but attributed the leaks to people very close to the project...
Yesterday's statement, which was not officially approved by the majority of the council members, was issued in response to comments made by Rosovsky at a council dinner Thursday night, in which he blamed departmental resistance for the University's slow progress in hiring women faculty members...