Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...March, thus outracing last March by 8.3% and completing a five-year stretch of consecutive monthly-sales increases. Since 1962, sales have risen from $1.7 billion to 1967's $2.75 billion-a 60% increase that edged out Sears's (59%), far exceeded that of third-ranked Montgomery Ward...
WHILE many students are bustling around the nation with heady dreams of winning presidential contests for Kennedy, McCarthy, or Rockefeller, some are working successfully at the other end of the political spectrum: on the grass-roots level of ward politics. Peter A. Gagliardi '68, for example, recently won elections to the three-man school committee and to the ten-man Democratic town committee in Athol, Massachusetts. A more striking case, however, was the Democratic ward committee election that occurred in Cambridge last primary day, April 29. Four college students, one of them a Harvard senior, headed a 12-member slate...
...students regrouped around Holworthy Gate and began to move to ward Lesley. A Cambridge Police car shined its bright lights at the crowd in an effort to turn it away. But one student yelled, "Charge!" and the rioters went roaring past...
Almost uglier than the flames were the rumors infecting the Central Ward next day and threatening to destroy the new mood of conciliation. The fire, they said, was the work of white arsonists bent on genocide rather than mere homicide. The fire department's arson squad meantime was questioning more than 50 residents in the area of the fire...
...whole political system, and doubted that they could ever accomplish real change by working inside it, were given a new sense of hope and power by the crusade for Eugene McCarthy in New Hampshire. Following a romantic cause to a remote state, a few thousand students used old-fashioned ward politics to help bring out the vote. The result brought Robert Kennedy into the presidential race. And that-plus student protests against the Administration's Viet Nam policies-had something to do with Lyndon Johnson dropping...