Word: equalizers
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Scott and Senator George McGovern. who lent their names to the day. On the right, the Rev. Carl McIntire denounced the ceremonies as a Hollywood-style ballyhoo dishonoring America's Viet Nam dead. From the satirical left came several "demands" that were politely shrugged off by the sponsors: equal time for Poet Allen Ginsberg to appear with Graham in the religious service, a Washington Monument painted in washable psychedelic colors. The left had more serious requests as well. A radical group, headed by Rennie Davis, one of the Chicago Seven defendants, wanted runners heading from Kent State in Ohio...
...England this week is pushing farther north than any of her predecessors have ever gone on a ceremonial tour. On her ten-day, 4,000-mile itinerary is a stop at the village of Resolute Bay, 700 miles north of the Arctic Circle, where the entourage (100) will nearly equal the residents...
Less obvious-and more insidious-is what happens to black students and teachers in some school districts where the terms for desegregation have been determined unilaterally by local white school boards. In recent testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, five young blacks and an official of the National Education Association described a bleak pattern of "internal segregation," which produces separate classrooms, separate lunch and gym periods and even separate bells so that blacks and whites will not use the halls at the same time. In Louisiana's DeSoto Parish, buses pick up blacks...
According to the Gergens, fully one-third of the students polled felt that the war had lowered their interest in graduate study as well as their respect for the way their colleges are administered. An equal number changed their career plans as a result of the war -many aiming for draft-exempt occupations. Ironically, the Gergens discovered that students at high-standard colleges were twice as likely to feel that the war "devalued" their education as were those at less difficult schools. Regardless of school, students with higher grades were more commonly affected by Viet...
...Boxer Rebellion. One member pines for the time when "Watts was the plural of a unit of electrical power" and "Detroit was a baseball team." For security reasons, all assume code names, such as MacArthur (Douglas), Crockett (Davy), Wayne (John) and Roosevelt (Theodore). History and Hollywood are given equal credibility ratings...