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...whether there will be a panel on the stage or a preferential group on the front row of the audience," said Ronald E. Yank, an SDS executive committee member. In either case, the group will contain four to six people and have access to microphones, he added...

Author: By Boisfeuillet JONES Jr., | Title: Goldberg To Face 'Panel,' SDS Asserts | 2/9/1967 | See Source »

...second undecided question, according to SDS, is who specifically will be in the preferential group. But Yank said, "We were told it will definitely contain two anti-war critics, a Faculty member and a student...

Author: By Boisfeuillet JONES Jr., | Title: Goldberg To Face 'Panel,' SDS Asserts | 2/9/1967 | See Source »

...McNamara is a principal architect of a controversial American foreign policy, a policy which raises serious moral objections. Both the policy and McNamara's responsibility for it make the Secretary unique among the proposed guests of the Kennedy Institute and justify a demand for a direct public confrontation. Ron Yank 3L Mike Ansara '68 Dennis Gregg 3G Co-chairmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McNAMARA's CHALLENGE | 11/7/1966 | See Source »

...that roams far offshore in both the Atlantic and Pacific, the mako can swim at 40 m.p.h., bite clean through a 500-Ib.-test wire leader, leap 20 ft. out of the water-higher than any marlin. Enraged by the hook, makos have been known to yank luckless fishermen overboard or jump straight into a boat, tear the place apart, then leap back into the water to fight for another two hours. Their killer instinct lingers even after death. At Ocean City, Md., not long ago, a tourist walked past the corpse of a mako lying on the dock, carelessly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fishing: Shark-Eating Men | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

There he stood, that moaning old Yank, Elvis Presley, 30, firmly in the No. 1 spot on London's Hit Parade with what the trade calls a ."religiose"-Crying in the Chapel. And were the Beatles crying any more than usual down there in 24th place with Ticket to Ride? No, no, no. For when the Queen's annual birthday honors list came out, there they were, among the 1,800 names: Ringo Starr, 24, John Lennon, 24, Paul McCartney, 22, and George Harrison, 22, all appointed members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 18, 1965 | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

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