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...evening. "I walked through the plaza," he recalled, "and talked to some of the kids. They were all wiggling with the music and hollering about Ho Chi Minh, and generally acting like perfect asses." Then he overheard an older man giving instructions to a young audience about how to disrupt the proceedings. Citizen Barkley promptly trotted over and told the police, who thanked him warmly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law Enforcement: The Respectable Rioter | 7/27/1970 | See Source »

...also be one of the most dangerous. They argue that lowering the water level of the Delta will allow salt water from San Francisco Bay to flow into the verdant Delta region and upset its ecological balance. Other ecologists predict that the diversion of water from the Delta will disrupt its natural flushing action, which is essential to the removal of industrial and agricultural wastes flowing into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Quenching California's Thirst | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

...wish to work within any system, so they protest and expect what they demand to be handed to them on a silver platter. The colleges are in a sad state when they do not expel students who burn everything from flags to buildings, strike the classes and disrupt the learning process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 15, 1970 | 6/15/1970 | See Source »

...group of 100 black Cambridge residents-many with their children-are staging a "tent-in" in the Yard and may attempt to disrupt this morning's Commencement ceremony unless Harvard promises to set aside the Treeland site adjoining Peabody Terrace for construction of a low-income housing project...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: Residents' Demonstration May Affect Graduation | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

...held, speakers are adding jeremiads on ecology, race and war to the normal buoyant rhetoric of "challenge." At Oberlin College, graduates wore street dress, having donated their cap-and-gown fees to a city youth program. David and Julie Eisenhower are receiving their diplomas by mail lest dissenters disrupt their graduations at Amherst and Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes: Memorial and Commencement, 1970 | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

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