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Only part of the reason for the fast was to raise money, Marie Korn '79, who helped organize the fast, said last night. "There's also the symbolic value of experiencing for one night the hunger of people in poverty," she said...
Connie Sawyer '79 said last night she was fasting although she did not think the action would help her understand the hunger of people in real poverty...
Robert P. Moynihan '75-4, a spokesman for the Harvard Hunger Action Project, said he hopes the fast will raise $2500. A similar fast last year raised $1200 for Oxfam...
...plans to give speeches (at $3,000 each), lecture next spring at the University of California (Berkeley), and finish a book. Schorr is free to leave the CBS payroll and join another network, but he insists that he is finished with television. Says he: "I have a terrible hunger for direct contact with people, and I want to see those little words in print that I can go back to next day and say, That's what I wrote...
...Algiers. A study of three women CIO organizers in the '30s, the film intercuts contemporary material--newsreels and union songs--with interviews to produce a powerful portrait of these women as workers, as women, and as individuals. Much of the newsreel material is unusual and exciting--footage of hunger marches and strikes in Chicago and Detroit, for example--but it is the interviews which are the truly remarkable aspect of the film. These women, who were first interviewed by Staughton Lynd in Rank and File, are exceptionally articulate about their experiences, as well as able to bring contemporary political concerns...