Word: miller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting of the Harvard Young Republican Club, McKeldin said that Vice-Presidential candidate William E. Miller's speech against liberalized immigration quotas clinched his decision to repudiate the Goldwater ticket. He emphasized that President Johnson was the only Democrat he had ever voted for in his life...
Meanwhile, in New Bedford, the Massachusetts courts began their suppression of yet another book. A bookseller was fined $1000 and sent to jail for a year for selling Henry Miller's Sexus...
Soup When David Miller, 22, graduated from Syracuse's Jesuit-run Le Moyne College last June, he headed for New York and went to work without pay in a Bowery-area soup kitchen run by the Catholic Worker movement, a charita ble group that is also passionately paci fist. In mid-October Miller got out of the kitchen long enough to land in the soup...
Climbing atop a sound truck parked for a Manhattan rally protesting the Viet Nam war, Miller announced: "I believe the napalming of villages in Viet Nam is an immoral act. I hope this will be a significant political act, so here goes." Then, while cameras whirred, he set fire to his draft card (classification 1-A) with a cigarette lighter...
...arrested three days later. Last week in federal court Miller became the first American citizen arraigned under a law, signed last Aug. 30 by President Johnson, by which anyone who burns his draft card commits a federal offense. Miller pleaded innocent, was released on $500 bond until his trial on Nov. 22. (In the meantime, he started a 30-day sentence for intruding on private property during a civil rights demonstration in Syracuse in March.) As he walked out of the courthouse after his arraignment, he declared: "Destruction of a draft card poses no greater threat to national security than...