Word: picketeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scuttled six yards around left end with his aloha shirt flapping. A crowd of 17 fans turned out for the game, which was blacked out on nationwide TV. There was some fear that the game might have to be postponed when beer vendors refused to cross the picket lines thrown up by striking members of the National Football League's Players Association. But that crisis was averted when Toots Shor agreed to act as water boy for both teams...
...American Institute of Architects is presenting its Gold Medal to Marcel Breuer this week. It may be a good thing this is happening in Portland, Ore., 2,445 miles away from Manhattan, where such an award ceremony right now would be sure to bring out pickets. Why would anybody want to picket Breuer, a kindly man of 66 and a distinguished architect whose Whitney Museum is one of the finest things that any designer has done for Manhattan in years? Because last week Breuer unveiled his plans for a $100 million, 55-story office building-to be placed...
...nights later, the rabbi appeared in the assembly hall of Manhattan's Hunter College to deliver the major speech of his two-week tour. He found a picket line of Jewish university students outside the hall, had to enter through the back door. Inside, loud and strident objectors in the audience of 1,700 repeatedly interrupted his speech, which he delivered in Yiddish, with catcalls and jeers. Levin was booed when he reported that there was a kosher slaughterhouse in Moscow, booed again when he said Jews were admitted freely into Russian schools and had no trouble getting jobs...
...Iranian Students' Association in the United States, however, rejects the Shah's regime as oppressive and militarily imposed, and said yesterday it would picket outside Harvard Yard at 2 p.m. today...
...other action, Vice Mayor Alfred Evellucci threatened to picket the next meeting of the water board at the Hotel Continental with a group of fishing enthusiasts because the board banned fishing in Fresh Pond...