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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jolly Green Giants," R. &. R. pilots have even gone into Hanoi's outskirts to rescue downed fliers. Every pilot carries a small radio to bring in rescuers-along with a Jolly Green Giant calling card that has rescue instructions and the pledge: "The bearer of this card, upon being suitably rescued, agrees to provide free cheer at the nearest bar for those making said rescue possible." More than 200 American pilots have been glad to pay off that debt...
...Upon arrival at the Plympton Street address, however, police said they found nothing but an introductory meeting for would-be editors of Cambridge's only breakfast-table daily...
...perennial parietal fight has this year been joined to a new issue--the role Harvard students should have in the decision-making of the College. Some student leaders and activists have seized upon parietals as a symbol of students' general lack of influence over the decisions that affect them. The rhetoric of student power, once common only in the circles of Students for a Democratic Society, has recently dominated the meeting of the traditionally subdued Harvard Undergraduate Council...
...grape picker in California works between 10 and 12 hours a day in fields which average more than 105 degrees during the summer. There are no toilets in the fields. Drinking water is allotted according to the number of bushels picked. The number is arbitrary depending upon the foreman's mood. The migrants live in tents, the regulars in long tin huts. By the time most of the children are 12 years old, they've quit school and work with their parents in the fields. Nobody earns more than $1.40 per hour picking grapes...
...think he might make a pretty good one. "He is more passionate, more openly aggressive, more impulsive and more capable of commitment than was his brother, but fundamentally he also is neither liberal nor conservative; he is an ideologically uncommitted man," says Shannon. "He remains a hardheaded pragmatist intent upon exercising power in the best national interests of the United States and the cause of freedom...