Word: insing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, student sit-ins were being held elsewhere at Cheyney State College, near Philadelphia, and Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California.
The latest worldwide wave of student activism started in the U.S. several years ago, partly as a demand for more freedom and power of decision on campuses. It was stimulated by two larger emotional issues. The first was civil rights. In their demonstrations in the early 1960s, U.S. students discovered...
"Get 'Em Out." Over the next 48 hours, other students accepted the invitation and seized three more campus buildings. By this time, the sit-ins had taken on an air of well-oiled organization. From inside the barricaded buildings, the insurgents sent out emissaries to bring back food, blankets...
New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, now actively challenging Nixon for the Republican nomination, attracted 115,937 votes, although he had not announced his candidacy at the time of the voting. Humphrey received 18,535 write-ins. There were 57,362 votes cast for Johnson, despite his disavowal.
Volpe, the only candidate on the Republican ballot, was falling short of his supporters' predictions with only 35 per cent of his party's votes. Rockefeller had 29 per cent, while write-ins for McCarthy were giving him 9 per cent of the Republican vote.