Word: carding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jury also heard Assistant Deputy U.S. Attorney General John McDonough state that Coffin, in the company of Co-Defendants Spock, Mitchell Goodman, 44, a New York writer, and Marcus Raskin, 33, a former White House disarmament aide, had delivered a briefcase filled with 356 draft cards to the Justice Department. McDonough testified that Raskin declared, "These cards are evidence of a violation of a federal law, and it is your duty to accept them." Film shot by a Boston TV crew of the draft-card-burning ceremony showed the fifth defendant, Michael Ferber, 23, a Harvard graduate student, urging...
...ruse is part of every reporter's equipment," agrees Melvin Mencher, an associate professor of investigative reporting at the Columbia School of Journalism. Mencher, a former United Press reporter, says he always carried a second wallet when working on a story. The wallet contained a social security card and credit cards to prove whatever identity he had chosen. He advises his students to assume false identities when necessary, if for no other reason than to "become a part of what you want to write about...
...Long Island Rail Road cars they swarm With Morning Telegraph or Racing Form And A rmstrong's Scratch Sheet, pouring towards the gates Beside which other literature awaits As benefice, whose fain purveyors call In accents more than audible by all, "Jack's Little Green Card!", "docker Lawton!!", "Hey, Got that Daily Double again today!!!" Don't trust these men, no matter how sincere Solicitude may cause them to appear...
...suppose a yearbook feels perpetually obligated to show the same dreary archways, people asleep in libraries, and sunsets-or-are-they-sunrises. But sit-ins, student power rallies, draft-card burnings, black activism, and New Hampshire were just a tad out of the ordinary this year, and one might almost expect a competent job of photojournalism. Forget...
...draft card turn-in staged at Boston's Arlington St. Church last October 16 was among the draft-resistance activities cited...