Word: en
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only about 12,000 demonstrators appeared, most of them college students from other college campuses and some teen-agers who were apparently attracted as much by the anticipation of an outing as by the cause. Few seemed really anxious for a confrontation. An 18-year-old youth en route to New Haven from New York City was asked why he was going. "You know, the Panthers are being oppressed," he explained halfheartedly. "Well," he added, "it's exciting. I want to see it." When about 50 S.D.S. radicals tried to organize a march on New Haven's city...
...term derives from the days when French architecture students at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts used a two-wheeled cart, or charrette, to pick up their design drawings. Sometimes, guided by some final inspiration, they worked hastily en charrette during the trip to the school...
...will most demonstrators, feeling they've made their contribution, disappear completely from the movement and spend the remainder of the strike on Cape Cod? Moreover, the short time available for planning the demonstration, and the experience of April 15 in Boston would seem to indicate that going to Washington en masse could produce sporadic street-fighting, and a further division of the movement from the nation. Supporting those Congressmen who are now trying to force Nixon to reverse his actions is important, but this support can best be given through letters, petitions, and visits by student delegations...
James Lovell added his own benediction when the astronauts first set foot on land en route home. Welcomed by gaily-dressed Samoans on Pago-Pago, Lovell said: "We do not realize what we have on earth until we leave...
After three years of iron-fisted rule, Greece's military junta suddenly seemed to be relaxing its grip. A total of 332 political prisoners were unexpectedly released from jail en masse. Twenty-seven men and women convicted of participating in a bomb plot that rocked Athens last summer were given lighter-than-expected sentences. A hand-picked senate of 50 men from various income levels and occupations was being formed to advise Premier George Papadopoulos and his colleagues...