Word: goldmarks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...developer is CBS-Laboratories President Peter Goldmark, who invented the long-playing record...
Days before the March, Tocsin leaders were hopeful that their intellectual approach would get results. Some still hoped that they might persuade Kennedy not to resume testing. "Since Eisenhower is out," Goldmark said, "the people there now are the ones we can talk to." He hoped for "a small but noticeable effect," and "to have the ideas of our policy injected with force into public discussions...
...Tocsin had envisioned. The marchers were thanked for their interest, told of the Congressman's strong feeling about the importance of peace and shown the door. "We were treated as if we were very very young, not at all intelligent and totally in the dark on cold war issues," Goldmark remarked after one such meeting...
...because of the emphasis on protest rather than policy, the marchers lacked the clear thinking and directed proposals of Goldmark's Project Washington. In 1962, although Tocsin had a very fragile coalition of allies (the Student Peace Union, Student SANE, the American Friends Service Committee, and SDS), it managed to produce a sharply focused set of policy proposals...
Despite the strength showed on Saturday, however, the student peace movement is still weak. At Harvard, anyway, there is no leader of Goldmark's caliber. In addition no group except the May 2nd Movement has yet produced position papers which approach the sophistication of Tocsin's. But the fact that the March on Washington outdrew Tocsin's 1962 demonstration nearly three to one mean sthat the foundation exists on which to build a strong peace movement