Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fire & Ink. As if at the push of a button, turmoil erupted in dozens of countries on five continents. In Moscow, a mob assaulted the Belgian embassy, smashed windows, and broke bottles of ink against the walls while militiamen stood by and watched. The demonstration was so well organized that whether the students from Africa were French-speaking or English, they showed up with placards (see cut) in English-for the benefit of U.S. TV cameras. Hours later, similar crowds were in action in Belgrade, Amsterdam, Paris...
...Like Polaris and the Army's tactical Pershing missile, Minuteman is cheaper and far simpler to handle than its liquid-fueled predecessors, requires a much smaller crew. Once built and armed, it can be stored indefinitely, countdown-ready-an ideal weapon for the split-second demands of push button warfare...
...conformity. "My parents thought Franklin D. Roosevelt was one of the greatest heroes who ever lived," says the Y.A.F. chairman, Yale Law Student Robert Schuchman, 22. "I'm rebelling from that concept." Says President Roger Claus of Wisconsin's Conservative Club: "You walk around with your Goldwater button, and you feel the thrill of treason." One big persuader is professorial pressure of "liberalism, liberalism, liberalism -the most illiberal thing that students meet on campus," says English Professor Bennett Weaver, sponsor of the Y.A.F. chapter at the University of Michigan...
Directing his fury against a proctor in Pennypacker who desires to remain nameless, the freshman flend adroitly slipped into the proctor's room and did up every button on every article of clothing the unfortunate victim possessed...
Escaping detection on each occasion, the "Mad Buttoner" left further traces of mania in the form of notes in the proctor's room and on the office desk in the Freshman Union. The exam period frustration of the unknown malefactor apparently took the form of cryptic missives and verses on a theme of buttons. "Button, button, who's got the button" was a favorite...