Word: used
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is just a skeleton organization," said Engelhardt. "We expect students to eventually fill it out and take it over." He hopes that when Project members disperse to their colleges this fall they will use their experience in political activities there...
Last summer 1) widespread media coverage of the use of marijuana by youth in general, 2) the holding of several be-ins in the spring, 3) the emergence of a psychedelic newspaper called Avatar, 4) the appearance of a head shop on Mass. Ave. called "Headquarters East," 5) the creation of a Diggers' free food house on Columbia St. in Cambridge, 6) the opening of a draft resistance headquarters, and 7) the movement of long-haired, funny-dressed people out of such underground (lit.) handouts as the Blue Parrot Cafe into the streets--all these things combined with...
...people on Beacon Hill were organized by being pushed off Boston Common. But Fleming and his bands have had little conflict with Cambridge police. Fleming originally checked with City Hall to see if he needed permission for his productions. Law requires a permit to sell, build, or use city electricity on the Common. With a $10-a-weekend generator, he doesn't need a permit...
While condemning the use of marijuana and supporting strict penalties for those who sell it, the statement calls present penalties for possession of pot "unrealistic." First offenders, who now face up to ten years in prison for possession, should not be treated harshly, the medical groups recommend. Only penalties for second and third offenses, they add, should be made gradually more severe. And they feel that "additional research is needed to determine more about the effects of marijuana" before anyone should make up his mind about...
Place of Confrontation. Exercising sanctuary privileges will, at best, only delay the inexorable law. Yet many clergymen are delighted with the opportunity to use their houses of worship in what they feel is an openly defiant way of supporting dissent. Roman Catholic Monsignor George W. Casey of St. Brigid's Church in Boston says that he finds some comfort in the fact that draft resisters-most of them nonreligious-have sought the church "as a place of confrontation. Church has been fading from the sight of young America. We hear the word 'irrelevant' so often it makes...