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Word: boycotters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protest against the artistic restrictions laid down by Greece's governing colonels, the Kiev Ballet, the Budapest Symphony and the Moscow Symphony have all canceled scheduled performances. An English chamber-music ensemble has sent its regrets; the Los Angeles Symphony and the Philadelphia Woodwind Ensemble have joined the boycott. Athenians are faced with a summer of safe plays and sedate music by Italian chamber-music groups who are already in town and seem content to stay for a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece: Safe & Censored | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

...like his father and physician son,* he is described by those who know him best as "slightly left of center" in medical-policy matters. Largely because of Dr. Wilbur's counsels in the board of trustees, the A.M.A. has eased its opposition to Medicare and refrained from a boycott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The A.M.A.: Progress Report | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

...expected. The minority, more traditionalist New Democratic Party (N.D.P.) accused the winners of stuffing ballot boxes, doctoring tally sheets and bribing voters and vote counters alike in at least 20 of the country's 131 constituencies. Unless Park called new elections, the N.D.P. threatened, its 44 representatives would boycott the Assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: Shattered Peace | 6/23/1967 | See Source »

...only happen among cerebral females, the girls quickly came to see their boycott as a strike for "freedom." They reported, by the fifth day, that "four have already become too weak to go on; one of them, Carole Adams, is in the infirmary." They published an elaborate history of their dealings with Mrs. Bunting, in which they tried to annotate her practice of dealing in bad faith. In the newspapers, Mrs. Bunting came across as a hard-hearted administrator, "maintaining silence in face of the fast" and professing her inability to "do anything, although they're perfectly free to express...

Author: By Linda G. Mcveigh, | Title: Mrs. Bunting and the Girls | 6/15/1967 | See Source »

...SNCC group began to draw up a list of grievances which students, throughout the period of the boycott, had begun to voice. And they agreed to call off the boycott until negotiations could be arranged with the administration on the following Monday. Late Sunday afternoon, however, the administration filed charges against Lee Otis Johnson, for disturbing the peace. He was taken to the county jail, and quickly released. Arguing that the administration had "played dirty," the Friends of SNCC resumed the boycott Monday morning, and released a far more comprehensive list of demands, including increasing teachers' salaries, changing women...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: Texas Southern University: Born in Sin, A College Finally Makes Houston Listen | 5/22/1967 | See Source »

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