Word: closings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Navy in the Eisenhower Administration. Children in the New York City public schools were allowed to stay home if they chose to take part in the Moratorium. In certain cases, the protest movement assumed ludicrous proportions: the West Side Montessori nursery school in Manhattan announced that it would close for the day to join the protest...
Antiwar sentiment was not nearly so pronounced in the Midwest. In Chicago, TIME Correspondent Sam Iker stopped 16 people at random in the street, and discovered that just two had some idea of what the Moratorium was about. The only Chicago businesses that planned to close were nine art galleries. One reason for this heartland attitude may be last week's disruptive outbursts in Chicago by the extremist "Weatherman" faction of the S.D.S. (see story, page 24), which led to head-busting that in the Midwest eclipsed publicity for the nonviolent M-day protest. Still, even here, support...
Montrealers discovered last week what it is like to live in a city without police and firemen. The lesson was costly: six banks were robbed, more than 100 shops were looted, and there were twelve fires. Property damage came close to $3,000,000; at least 40 carloads of glass will be needed to replace shattered storefronts. Two men were shot dead. At that, Montreal was probably lucky to escape as lightly...
Last night, Congressmen supporting the Moratorium kept the House of Representatives in session until shortly after 11 p.m. Opponents of an all-night vigil succeeded in forcing an adjournment by a close vote...
...believe that the academic activity of the University is of very great importance. We do not plan to close the University officially on October fifteenth nor in November nor in December. But the rights of individuals-teachers. students, staff-to follow the dictates of their own consciences in these deeply troubling days will, of course, be fully respected...