Word: golden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MERTIS L. GOLDEN...
...Honolulu, the pacifists who had threatened to sail their ketch Golden Rule into the Eniwetok blast area were jailed for defying a court ordering them back. From French Equatorial Africa, Dr. Albert Schweitzer renewed his stop-the-tests plea, with trimmings of benign neutralist disengagement...
...Violent Action committee also sponsored a demonstration in Nevada last summer, at the Camp Mercury testing grounds. Here, in the same spirit of Gandhian civil disobedience that has guided the crew of the "Golden Rule," eleven people attempted to enter the testing area. They were arrested for trespassing, and given a suspended sentence. Bigelow was a member of this group...
...week after the ketch had arrived in Honolulu, the University of Hawaii newspaper ran an extra, headlined GOLDEN RULE--ISSUE OF AN ERA. It may well be such an issue, and four men in the Pacific have made up their minds as to how they feel about it. The voyage can be opposed or supported; it should not be ignored
...voyage of the Golden Rule Bigelow says: ". . . men are bound by old patterns of feeling, thought, and action. The organs of public opinion are almost completely shut against us. It seems practically impossible, moreover, for the ordinary person by ordinary means to speak to, and affect the action of, his government. . . . It is only by such acts as sailing a boat to Eniwetok and thus 'speaking' to the government right in the testing area that we can expect to be heard...