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Across the nation, student members of SLATE, which has headquarters in Berkeley, California, are planning similar demonstrations...
...weeks with a serious charley horse injury. One of the three remaining undefeated Ivy teams, along with Dartmouth and Princeton, Harvard will have to continue its habit of fooling the bookies, which it had acquired in the last three games, if it hopes to keep a clean slate...
...democratic liberty." Throughout the department of Aveyron, teachers and veterans boycotted his appearances. But in general, despite a boycott ordered by farm and labor unions, De Gaulle got a rousing welcome. As his convoy of black Citroëns wound through patches of woodlands tinged with autumn, past slate-roofed farmhouses, farmers and their families came to the edges of their fields to wave and doff their berets; and at crossroads, schoolchildren fluttered paper flags. Once again, De Gaulle showed that despite sporadic signs of discontent, his hold on the French people remains largely intact...
Democrats decided to use the same strategy that they have used so long and so successfully. With 144 delegates to be chosen-one for each seat in the legislature-they put together a slate of workaday politicians, counted on organization to pull their candidates through. The Republicans, on the other hand, pulled out all stops. Where they had spent only $34,000 on last spring's election, they earmarked $75,000 for this campaign. Instead of depending on politicians, the party drafted such leading Michigan citizens as American Motors Corp. President George Romney and Michigan State University President John...
...York was not the only city where it could have happened, but it was certainly the most likely. Last week Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner swept to a landslide Democratic primary victory at the head of a reform slate sworn to clean up the municipal mess that had grown up during Wagner's own eight hapless years in office. Wagner won by 160,000 votes over State Controller Arthur Levitt, the candidate of New York City's regular Democratic organization. And in the process of rolling up that plurality, Wagner dealt a mortal blow to the bosses...