Word: doors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that stings, sickens and temporarily blinds anyone it hits in the face. Shattered and shaken, the dissenters broke and ran, leaving bloody-headed buddies-and a dozen hapless newsmen-crumpled in the streets. The picketers resumed their vigil, forcing the draft center to bus its inductees right to the door, then double-time the soldiers-to-be through the crowd under escort of bayonet-swinging troops. It was an ugly image, and one that could cozily be interpreted outside the U.S. to imply that American draftees must be marched into service at gunpoint...
Glimp said that turning in a bursar's card in support of the protest and actually obstructing freedom of movement "are as different as night from day in my mind." He indicated as obstructing the door would not be dealt with severely even if they had surrendered their bursar's card...
...said officials had "carefully identified students right in front of the door, those directly involved in obstructing movement of the Dow representative." There is a "distinct possibility," he said, that those people will be severed...
...When no interviewees showed up to see Boer at 233, the demonstrators decided he was a decoy and sent scouts to find Leavitt. They found him at 11 a.m. conducting an interview in the building next to Conant--Mallinckrodt M-102. In seconds, the whole demonstration moved to that door and Leavitt was trapped inside for the rest...
Only last month were their efforts rewarded. In a closed-door meeting with City officials, Bridwell agreed to postpone any immediate decision on the Belt in order to give the City time to "offset the mountain of evidence" showing a need for the road. He agreed to finance--at least in part--a re-study of the Belt by independent consultants. A City-appointed overseeing committee would supervise the study...