Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least 40 seniors in Eliot House are planning to burn their diplomas and walk out of commencement exercises on June 12 to protest Harvard's policies on ROTC and expansion...
...time." He doesn't have much faith in birth-control pills, but was intrigued by an experimental pill for males that had only one drawback: it caused men's eyeballs to turn red if they drank alcohol. "I mean, there you are, an attractive young lady. You walk into a cocktail party crowded with handsome young bachelors. Half have red eyeballs, half don't. Which . . . well, we'd soon separate the ladies from the girls...
...unusual about Mattie is that he has a check in his pocket for $25,452.32-the accumulation with interest of his 47 years of prison wages. A large sum in a Depression year, and the good citizens of Glory aren't about to let a freshly pardoned convict walk off with it. "When I hit town at sunup I heared it," says a taleteller. "Talk. Everywheres. A muttering meanness. In the Krogers and the A.&P. and up at Pickett's Store and at the farmers' market out First Street by the glass works. Mean whispering, stranger...
...group, which called itself the Ad Hoc Committee on Commencement, voted to walk out of commencement exercises to express a "general disatisfaction with Harvard " and, in particular, support of the eight strike demands. The group made no decisions on specific tactics, but voted down a proposal to burn diplomas. They stipulated, however, that as a group they would not discourage any individual from taking such action...
...Committee met yesterday in Phillips Brooks House to organize two-man work groups to formulate specific plans for commencement. Plans which have been proposed include the walk-out from commencement exercises, withholding of the class gifts, and educational seminars to be held during commencement week for parents and alumni...