Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earlier, similarly grim testimony had come from Actress Kitty Arseni, accused by the Athens regime of having been an intermediary for the recording of a "freedom poem" by Composer Mikis Theodorakis. In Athens, a government spokesman announced angrily that Greece would boycott further commission hearings this week if the sessions were not kept secret. Marketakis and Meletis, meanwhile, were granted permanent residence in Norway...
...death." By the standards of TV, this sort of treatment works; Julia is currently ranked No. 6 in the Nielsen ratings. Analyzing those numbers, NBC statisticians report that Julia attracts an "upscale" audience -more urban, wealthier and better educated than the average. There are no indications of either a boycott by Southern whites or heavier tune-in among blacks. Predictably, though, Negro militants are outraged. And, to be sure, Julia is rarely confronted with the tough problems of being born black. She would not recognize a ghetto if she stumbled into it, and she is, in every respect save color...
...congratulate you on the excellent Essay "What If You Don't Vote?" [Nov. 1]. Millions of Czechs, Hungarians and Poles are ready to die behind the Iron Curtain for that very right of a free and unfettered vote, while American pseudo-intellectual masochists agitate for the boycott of the 1968 presidential elections. Shame on them...
...unofficial count in, Nixon had 29,565,052 (43%); Hubert Humphrey, 29,539,500 (43%); and George Wallace, 9,181,466 (13%). The indicated electoral vote was 290 for Nixon, 203 for Humphrey and 45 for Wallace. Contrary to many predictions, the voters showed no inclination to boycott the election. Nor were they so angry or disillusioned as to waste inordinate numbers of votes on splinter parties...
...speeches concerned the relationship of Harvard to Cambridge government. Vellucci spent about fifteen minutes attacking the Harvard CRIMSON for failing to report the prime issues of Cambridge and for failing to inform students of what was really happening in the City. He suggested that if this continues students should boycott the CRIMSON in protest...