Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rather than hand the bird over to the Lampoon, the senior created an intricate and powerful corporation known as Find-a-Bird Inc., promising to hunt down the lbis, around the world, if the Lampoon would agree to a lavish public ceremony upon receiving it back. The senior indicated that if the Lampoon didn't comply, Find-a-Bird might be dissolved to become Melt-a-Bird. When the lbis finally was ready to be returned to the Lampoon, the required celebration was arranged, before the Dartmouth Game at Freedom Square...
...Ralph David Abernathy has vowed time after time that unless something is done to help the poor, they will bring down "plague after plague" upon "the Pharaohs of this nation." Last week, as his Poor People's Campaign continued to flood into Washington, it began to look as if somebody, somewhere, had mistaken the poor for the Pharaohs and their "Resurrection City" for old Egypt land...
Unless Abernathy settles down to some long-range planning in place of the pulpit vagaries he has relied upon so far, he could conceivably be supplanted-or the organization could follow its founder to the grave. For the time being, though, Abernathy is plainly relishing his new position. "We are going to stay in Washington," he declares repeatedly, "until Congress decides to put an end to poverty in this country...
...most intent upon keeping the pressure on Columbia remains Mark Rudd; despite his suspension, he has vowed to carry on the students' strike through the summer and into the fall. The day after his suspension, he was back haranguing students, released on $2,500 bail posted by his father, a realtor in Maplewood, N.J. Though they dispute his tactics, Rudd's parents have supported his ambitions. "My son, the revolutionary," says his mother proudly. "I was a member of the depressed generation and my greatest concern has always been making a living," says his father...
James Washington Jr., chairman of CBC, hinted that the City may face racial violence this summer unless more is done for the blacks. "I just can't impress upon the Council the urgency of what has to be done," Washington said...