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...Francisco area, where last year almost 60,000 housewives, hippies, businessmen and beards marched, only 15,000 zealots turned out despite a blanket invitation to protest "against the war, racism, repression, poverty and the draft." Most of the 200,000 young Americans who took part in a day-long "student strike" by cutting classes the day before the marches just sat around on campuses, strumming guitars and singing folk songs. Remarked a San Francisco State professor: "Isn't it great that all these people came out to celebrate William Shakespeare's birthday...
...tonight is the development of concrete strategies for the elimination of racism," Michael L. Walzer, associate professor of Government and discussion chairman, said. The discussion climaxed a day-long program of speeches and study groups on urban and racial problems...
...truce, its scouts spotted a large North Vietnamese force moving into the Quang Tri coastal flats. As soon as the truce had ended, the ARVN moved to the attack, boxing the Communists into a four-sided trap with the help of a U.S. Marine blocking force. In a fierce day-long battle, the ARVN soldiers, using their new M16s, killed at least 100 of the North Vietnamese v. only 15 ARVN dead, while allied air, artillery and helicopters killed another 100. A day later, another ARVN battalion flushed a Viet Cong unit in Quang Ngai province to the south...
Team captain Chalmers was high-point skipper in the regatta, gaining first in four of her five races. The girls sailed a triangular course plus a final windward leg in day-long competition...
...efforts to get the National Governors Conference to act urgently on the ghetto crisis, New York's Nelson Rockefeller, chairman of the G.O.P. Governors' policy committee, brought together seven of his moderate Republican colleagues,* all but one of them from urban states, to Manhattan for a day-long conference on what the states can do about slum problems...