Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of encounters with the Portsmouth High School Band (it was Partsmouth, N.H. Day in Fenway Park). We stood attentively by the goals posts as they played the "Star Spangled Banner," then calmly watched them turn and march right down the field toward us. It seemed only logical at the time that they would break ranks right before they reached the goalposts, but one of the two groups obviously needs a lesson in logic. Almost before I realized what had happened, I found myself staring deep into a tuba as its owner relentlessly marched onward. Somewhat dazed, I looked...
Nonetheless, these two 21-year-old and one 19-year-old have ploted since last spring to overthrow a whole way of life. Their banner reads "SEX," their creed is written on the circuits of a computer, and their initial organized uprising is called Operation Match...
While thousands of revelers swayed to the strains of Auld Lang Syne and The Star-Spangled Banner, prim ladies in tweed suits feverishly uprooted all the chrysanthemums recently planted for a permanent park, stuffed them into their pocketbooks or pinned them onto their hats. Tipsy men wantonly ripped signs from buildings, kicked over trash baskets, waded in the Unisphere fountain, and shinned up the 20-ft. poles near the United Nations Plaza to capture the flags. One man completely gutted a statue of King Tut near the Egyptian Pavilion, another attacked a copy of an ancient vase outside the Greek...
Slug for Slap. On some campuses, counter-protesters engaged in debates or separate rallies. In Detroit, the opposition sang The Star-Spangled Banner over and over, all but drowning out the Vietniks. In Chicago and Oakland, Calif., demonstrators were pelted with raw eggs, and cops broke up a few mild scuffles. The leading rank of 10,000 paraders in New York City got doused with red paint. Even pleaders for peace can become aggressive. At New Jersey's Rutgers University, a hotbed of anti-Viet Nam sentiment (see preceding story), a middle-aged woman lightly slapped Biology Senior Alan...
Eliot House, Harvard's second great rowing power, kept the Crimson banner above water in the singles competition. Senior Paul Wilson, who trained in Europe this summer under a Swiss sculling master, won the college singles title with a 19:47 time...