Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many ideas," says Kirstein of his successor. Storrow boasts no publishing experience beyond his trial run in putting out the Nation's 100th anniversary issue last summer. Yet so uncharacteristically sleek was that 336-page effort that Storrow may be just the man to make dollars out of dissent. He feels confident that he can double circulation to 60,000 within 18 months and show a modest profit-the first since 1944. He plans a big promotion campaign on college campuses, where he believes most potential $10-a-year subscribers are concentrated. He will also brighten up the magazine...
...Army meanwhile made clear that dissent is for civilians. Lieut. Henry Howe Jr., 23, was photographed in November carrying a placard that read: "End Johnson's fascist aggression in Viet Nam." Last week a court-martial at Fort Bliss, Texas, found him guilty of showing contempt of authority and conduct unbecoming an officer. Howe was sentenced to two years at hard labor and dismissal from the service...
Emil Mazey, liberal secretary-treasurer of the Auto Workers, later chided Meany "for a vulgar display of intolerance" in ejecting the Vietniks. "The most precious freedom that we have is the freedom of dissent," said Mazey. "The labor movement has been the victim of people trying to silence our right of expression, and we have to take the lead and demonstrate and fight for the right of people to disagree, whether it is on Viet Nam or any other subject matter." Meany, whose life in the labor movement has left him with little patience for philosophers, retorted that the demonstrators...
...rules for France's first direct presidential election since 1848-and it was he who was ambushed by them. "The stupidest thing of my life," he reportedly muttered afterward. The rule of 50% -or-a-runoff gave everybody, including Gaullist voters, a free and harmless chance to dissent. They could demonstrate distaste for his haughty ways and still set things straight at the runoff. It was a free swing at the genera], and swing they...
Humphrey noted that increasing and voluble concern international affairs has made it more important than to protect the right of dissent. "Let us never in our frenzy, our passion, our emotion, deny the right to be different, to disagree," he said...