Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apparently Eisenstack felt his voter strength had been slipping ever since he voted for meeting with the leaders of the 1964 school boycott, but his busing stand unequivocally bonded him to Mrs. Hicks in political wedlock. He ran second. Thomas O'Connor, has never, in his four years on the Committee, been known to vote against Mrs. Hicks...
...every issue it took up-including the matter of sending troops to Rhodesia. Only 19 heads of state even entered the conference room, for nearly half of Africa boycotted Kwame's "summit" entirely. The official excuse used by the leaders of French-speaking Africa, who led the boycott, was Nkrumah's failure to deport the hundreds of exiled subversives who use Accra as a headquarters for plots against them. But when, at the last minute, he desperately rounded up all the exiles he could find, they still refused to come. Their real goal all along had been...
Second and even more important, the School Committee's biennial elections are coming up this November. Observers have speculated that Eisenstadt felt that he was losing votes because he had endorsed a motion for the School Committee to meet with the leaders of the school boycott of 1964. His new busing proposal, however, placed him solidly back in the Hicks camp, and provided both him and Mrs. Hicks with a political hobbyhorse for the coming campaign...
...N.A.A.C.P.'s Evers persuaded his people to disperse. In five turbulent nights a total of 537 civil rights demonstrators were arrested. Meanwhile, Negroes added several more stores to the list of businesses they are boycotting for refusal to give Negroes better-than-menial jobs; so effective did the boycott become that Negro faces almost vanished from the downtown shopping area...
...help. Diffusion of sound so unbalanced that best vantage point is, ironically, cheapest seat in top balcony. New York Philharmonic musicians complain they cannot hear each other onstage, say hall is glorified $17.7 million pinball machine. Mood of pessimism pervades. Rumors circulate that visiting orchestras are going to boycott splendorous blue-and-gold hall in favor of mellow surroundings of Carnegie Hall. Soloists panic, talk of canceling performances. Hall management says it takes time for ear to adapt. Hall Acoustician Leo Beranek, who spent four years studying 54 of world's finest concert and opera houses in preparation, pleads...