Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henry Fonda's little girl who went to Vassar grew up to be not only a gifted actress but the Pasionaria of the antiwar movement. In the early '70s Jane marched in protests and starred at rallies, and during a trip to North Viet Nam, spoke against the U.S. war effort over Radio Hanoi. "I'm not a do-gooder," she proclaimed in those days. "I'm a revolutionary-a revolutionary woman...
...Harry Emerson Fosdick once held forth, has suffered a slow membership decline, from 3,300 to 2,600 over the past decade. To turn things around, the church has hired flamboyant Presbyterian William Sloane Coffin, 53, who during 17 years as chaplain of Yale led many civil rights and antiwar rallies and twice went to jail...
...forms. A man named David Olsen founded the San Francisco-based New School for Democratic Management, where workers are taught how to run their own businesses. People from the movement have revived interest in such unglamorous electoral jobs as county assessor, state treasurer and tax commissioner. Sam Brown, an antiwar leader who became state treasurer of Colorado, is now the director of ACTION, the federal agency encompassing VISTA and the Peace Corps...
Once a radical always a radical? Not, certainly, in the case of Rennie Davis, 37. Once he was a tough-minded tactician of the antiwar movement and the Chicago Seven, who were tried for disrupting the 1968 Democratic Convention. In 1973, the year after his Chicago conviction was overturned, Davis hooked up with a teen-age guru called Maharaj Ji. Now he is connected with an even more unlikely name: John Hancock. Yes, Davis is a trainee at the insurance company's Denver office. Says he of his new constituency: "We have to get the business to the level...
...retired people as probers. James Millstone, an assistant managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was refused auto insurance by Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. of San Francisco because of phony information obtained from an elderly neighbor, who was mad at Millstone because he put up antiwar demonstrators at his home. The neighbot falsely told an investigator for O'Hanlon Reports Inc. of New York that the editor was a long-haired, bearded hippie who let his children run wild, had been evicted from three previous residences and was suspected of using drugs. Because the investigating agency...