Word: weaver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California ballot was a proposition that had been put there as the result of a petition signed by over 500,000 voters. It asked, in effect, if Californians approved of legislation that had already enabled Pat Weaver's Subscription Television Inc. to go into business. Californians overwhelmingly said...
Death Rattle. Weaver's STV, which already has over 6,000 subscribers in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas, has been on the air since July, beaming plays, opera, lectures and ball games to clients on a pay-as-you-see basis. Over $22 million had been invested in it before Election Day. Since STV is the most advanced of all pay-TV systems to date, the California vote may have sounded a national death rattle...
...major issues discussed was the place of voter registration in the total movement. Claude Weaver '65-3, who spent a year in the state and a summer as project director in Panola County, explained that the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, while perhaps the most significant accomplishment of COFO, is only a start, a way to get at "bread and butter issues." The larger economic problems, like land distributions, will have to be worked out by "traditional political tactics of discussion and compromise" by all the people of the state...
...MFDP, the first political protest group for the Negroes in 20-30 years and in Weaver's opinion, hopefully the eventual replacement for the official Democratic party, may be the means of enabling all the people of Mississippi to work out their problems together...
...Weaver, speaking for the "old leadership" of the movement, expressed mild surprise that things had stayed as quiet as they had, "that there had been a few killings, perhaps, but no massacres. Most Mississippians must have felt," he said, "that if they just gritted their teeth and waited it out, like in 1865, pretty soon the outsiders would give up and go home...