Word: aldermaston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem of a few "trouble-makers"; his widest vision may grasp an idea of some sinister underground conspiracy. An uncanny international cooperation has formed at the LSE, with veterans of Alabama, the anti-apartheid movement, Pakistani politics, and Greek student strikes working easily with British students educated by the Aldermaston marches and left university politics. But the "conspiracy" is the result of a universal experience: the established authorities are making terrible mistakes...
...roads, and traffic snarls stretched as far as ten miles. Mods and Rockers, those peculiar breeds of British youth, made their seasonal migration to Brighton and points south, and fought a few Easter skirmishes. Other adolescents, together with older Ban-the-Bombers, set out on the annual march from Aldermaston to London's Trafalgar Square, where their beards and unkempt heads of hair frightened the pigeons. In the Cotswolds, hunting horns sounded over green hills as the fox fled before hounds and huntsmen. And in London, which now rivals Las Vegas as the gambling capital of the world, players...
...pert redhead with a flair for fashion, she came from a Yorkshire Laborite family, was an ardent member of the old, deep-pink Popular Front Socialist League. Her idea of a Sunday in the park is addressing a crowd from a Trafalgar Square plinth. She has made all the Aldermaston ban-the-bomb marches, has long had a passion for emergent Africa, the purview...
...careful to dissociate Tocsin from the more emotional Boston University and Brandeis factions of the 'Peace Movement' (you could recognize the latter by their use of the 'mutation' and milk-related arguments). He rejected the techniques of picketing and demonstrating which they had taken over from England's Aldermaston Marchers, since college students could perform a different and probably more valuable_ role in the fight by using their minds rather than their feet. But this approach was decided upon only after profound disagreements among the members, many of whom had helped form Tocsin because they thought the Harvard chapter...
...have been a reader of TIME for nearly 20 years and never before have I written to you about any reports, but the report on the Aldermaston March in the April 26 issue was so good that I must say thank you. How nice to read a really sane report. More power to that reporter...