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About 75 students sat-in at Dean May's office for two hours yesterday afternoon in an SDS-led protest against the Cambridge Project and the wage differential among categories of painters...
...Butler were in May's office when the demonstrators entered shortly after 1 p.m. The students presented their demand that all painters' helpers be promoted to painters. SDS claims the helpers and painters do the same work and wants the wage differential between the two groups-up to 86 cents an hour-abolished...
...demonstrators talked among themselves for another hour and then decided to leave. An SDS meeting Tuesday night had suggested remaining in the office until 5 p.m. and perhaps later...
...stood with Mike Spiegel '68, National Secretary of SDS, and a number of other students from Harvard, it became clear that everyone expected trouble. Some were wearing crash helmets and others who wore glasses had remembered to bring along an extra pair. Vague plans had been laid to spend the night at the Pentagon, but no one really knew if the vigil was going to come off. There was a good deal of speculation about what kind of people had showed up and how they would react under stress. Spiegel was not pleased with the hippies and was afraid that...
...ground they had gained-what was later to be christened the "Free Pentagon" -and were convinced that the violence was over. As the afternoon wore on, the military attempted a few flanking movements in an effort to cut off the demonstrators sitting on the steps. They were repulsed. SDS had set up their microphones on the wall beside the top steps and was directing traffic and posting troop movements for those who couldn't see: "About 50 MP's are trying to block off the stairs... they're using tear gas... it looks like our people have them surrounded...