Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earlier in the day, as NAC marched toward the CIS, about 500 demonstrators led by SACC descended on the administration offices of the second floor of the main building. Kenneth Wadleigh, vice-president of the university, explained that President Howard W. Johnson was not in his office...
...restraining order is upheld in court this morning. M.I.T. officers can ask the court in the afternoon to send police to arrest demonstrators for contempt of court. Johnson said yesterday that only he would call for police, after receiving advice from M.I.T. faculty members and students who will be on hand to watch for possible violations of the court order...
...arrests will be made today, Johnson added, except "in very aggrieved cases."Only campus police will be present at the beginning of the afternoon, he said, "A mill-in action will be permitted so long as free passage is not blocked...
...M.I.T. faculty voted, 344 to 43, at a special meeting yesterday morning to endorse Johnson's action after the fact. The effect of the restraining order, according to Johnson, "should be to make our position clearer and to reduce the possibility of a situation which we would have to oppose by force...
...Johnson, provost Jerome B. Wiesner, and M.I.T. Corporation head James R. Killian are among those whose offices will be occupied. If they are present, the NAC spokesman said, they will be told to leave. And if they refuse, they will be evicted bodily, "unless doing so would start a pitched battle...