Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While I've seen no indication that Professor Galbraith's proposed boycott of professors who do classified research for the government is going to stimulate a new movement, it does raise important questions about the personal activities of faculty members and the ways they may be involved with the government, and about the appropriate selection of target for protest. May I explain why I think his proposal is probably not workable and, if not workable, objectionable...
...White Plains, N.Y., the Westchester County seat, 50 Negro community leaders met to analyze Negro faults and problems-and pointedly barred whites from the meeting. And at times a largely symbolic action seems to be self-defeating. The decision of 120 Negro students, among them some 65 athletes, to boycott the 1968 Olympic Games is a case in point. They considered their act a sign of protest against the denial of Negro rights in general. However, some Negroes among the many who have won fame and fortune in U.S. athletics thought that the youngsters had picked the wrong field. Said...
...Somalia announced resumption of trade before the formal talks had even begun. Somalia had been experiencing difficulties finding outlets for its beef, and when the American packing firm, "Ward Foods," agreed to act as agents for the Somalia Government's cattle transactions with Kenya, the 16-month-old trade boycott came to an end. News of the resumed trade was released by Bruce Mckenzie, Kenya's minister for Agriculture, who said in Nairobi that the decision was in the spirit of Harambee (pulling together, a Kenyan national slogan) and ". . . [it] results directly from the Kinshasa agreement . . . to find ways...
...development of highly secret materiel for use in Vietnam. I urged not alone the futility but the adverse public effects of such action; I said that a better remedy lay against the Faculty members who ran this enterprise. Students might organize to avoid their classes, i.e., peacefully to boycott them. Last Monday evening at the meeting in the Hilles Library arranged by President bunting to discuss legitimate forms of protest I repeated (along with others) this suggestion and added that this particular one would not be without effect on those who sponsored such work in a university but that...
...settle for about 60%, down nearly ten points from her previous showings. In Irish precincts with higher income and education levels, her share of the vote dropped to near 50%. Yankee, Negro and Jewish neighborhoods went decisively for White. Negroes ignored the promptings of black militants to boycott the mayoral election and vote only for Atkins. Though the percentage of eligibles voting was the largest ever for a Boston municipal election, White's plurality of 12,552 out of 192,860 votes cast was one of the smallest in the city's history...