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...vague and general terms that gave little indication of when and if the proposals would be accepted. Ethos re-presented the proposals to the president with the stipulation that "if a satisfactory response is not received at this time, Ethos will (before members of all press agencies) begin a hunger strike to continue until a satisfactory answer is received." The following day the administration accepted all of the recommendations...
...restrained response of black students this fall can be explained partly by the fact that most of the more militant blacks had tired of confronting the administration. Those who had threatened a hunger strike the previous spring were now seniors. They had been pressing Wellesley for change for three years, and they were not eager to invest time and energy in an institution in which they were to spend only one more year...
...Clifford Hardin, Secretary of Agriculture, evidently does not have any policy for farmers, but his most important decisions will probably be on emergency supplies for undernourished families in the Deep South, and relations with huge agricultural complexes like the California grape companies and their employees. His book, Overcoming World Hunger, could indicate a general concern for problems like these. In the Post Office Winton Blount will probably lend added support to the recent business advisory committee recommendations to turn the Post Office into a public corporation...
...that even advocates of vicarious drive reduction would recommend community programs in which sexually aroused adolescents are shown libidinous movies at drive-in theatres as a means of reducing sexual behavior, or in which famished persons are presented displays of gourmands dining on culinary treats in order to alleviate hunger pangs...
...think now is the time for your great act of will. To write for a living is a relatively liberated decision to make. But you find yourself forced by circumstances beyond your control (e.g., hunger) to write a lot of journalistic stuff you don't want to. You success is determined by the chance meeting of certain editors and the arbitrary dispositions of potential publishers when they read your work...