Word: pennington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...university isn't neutral." Pennington said at the end of the rally. "It uses committees, cops and troops to attack the people. We must ally ourselves with the working people and fight the common enemy...
...march, conceived at a September 14 sub-regional SDS convention, will culminate in a rally with three speakers: Cindy Kline, the Cambridge Peace and Freedom Party's candidate for City Council; John Pennington, SDS national secretary; and Sargent. This wing of SDS is opposed to the Moratorium, Sargent said, "but will participate in it in order to win people over to a better position...
...press statement, read by John Pennington '68, national secretary of SDS, calls the CPLA attackers "thugs." It charges that "they assaulted the workers at the Institute, not the bosses who profit from its efforts to exploit cheap labor abroad, and to suppress movements of oppressed people around the world...
...triumphs, marred only by his failure three times running to get accepted into Poet Archibald MacLeish's creative-writing seminar. He poured his energies into the Lampoon, the undergraduate humor magazine. At the end of his sophomore year, he met a fine-arts major at Radcliffe named Mary Pennington, two years his senior and the daughter of a Unitarian minister in Chicago. "I courted her essentially by falling down the stairs of the Fogg Museum several times," Updike recalls...
...Pennington said that he expects to end up in jail if "the case is decided in the near future, but the Army is so inconsistent anyway that it's hard to tell if they'll even carry through with trying to induct me on Monday...