Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...satisfied by participation in the 4-H Club. When she told her husband Bernard that she planned to attend a Moratorium observance at Mundelein College, he had a surprise for her too: he had decided to take part in a businessmen's discussion of the war at his downtown bank...
...Long and Short. The miniskirt has caught on all-embracingly in Saigon and Bangkok, despite official censure. To avoid police harassment, Saigon prostitutes trip along downtown streets wearing ankle-length raincoats over their minis. In Bangkok, short skirts are criticized primarily as a symbol of the increasingly resented U.S. presence. Teachers, for example, have been told to stop wearing miniskirts because they are "an example of poor Western culture." Nonetheless, Princess Ubol Ra-tana, the King's oldest daughter, sports a mini while shopping in Bangkok's boutiques. Thailand, for all its resentment of Western variations of permissiveness...
...crowd, augmented by other opportunists, moved through downtown Montreal, burning and looting. Rioters stormed into the swanky Queen Elizabeth Hotel, then moved on to the nearby Windsor Hotel and nearly wrecked Mayor Jean Drapeau's newly opened restaurant. Expensive shops along St. Catherine's Street were hit by looters. On the city's outskirts, burglars went to work; one was shot dead by a doctor in his suburban home...
...campus-wide assembly at the University of Pennsylvania, called by the Provost of the University, was attended by 2500 students and faculty, who called for immediate withdrawal of all U.S. forces in Vietnam. The assembly was followed by a march to the J.F.K. Plaza in downtown Philadelphia, where 50,000 gathered. Noam Chomsky was the principle speaker...
...final Moratorium activities took place late last night in Providence, R.I., after a rally of 12,000 persons at the state-house, some 200 antiwar demonstrators marched through the downtown business section, singing "God Bless America...