Word: picketeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that will be scattered like giant gopher holes across 20,000 sq. mi. By late next fall, a full year ahead of the original schedule, the first 50 Minutemen will go operational in Montana. And by 1965, the Air Force will have between 750 and 900 Minutemen on the picket line in Montana, Missouri, North and South Dakota, and other states still to be chosen...
Superficially, the Journal walkout resembled many another newspaper strike. It began when 57 mailers in I.T.U. Local 23 left their jobs, demanding higher pay and job security. When other shop unions refused to cross picket lines, the strike force soon reached 500-nearly all Journal stockholders. In the hands of a skilled labor negotiator from St. Louis, the real strike issue abruptly came clear. Even though 1,025 employees own some stock, the executives control the paper...
...NAACP will not picket the movie this time because it has concluded that the movie is being given by the film study group only as part of a series to show technical improvements and the film's impact on the cinema industry...
Sharpened Knives. Around the world, other Army units are on the picket line. G.I.s muffled in cold-weather gear patrol the white wastes of the Arctic. In the jungles of South Viet Nam, guerrilla-fighting experts of the Army's newly formed Special Forces teach villagers how to fire the Mi, then lead them on forays against the Communist raiders that are filtering across the border in increasing numbers. In Hawaii, the 25th Infantry Division is trained in the stealthy art of jungle warfare. During maneuvers, men of the 25th drill on techniques of getting along with native tribes...
...excitement was inside, though. On the street below, Harvard conservatives led a picket line against "YSA Dupes." Later in the evening, as a crowd of 300-400 began to gather, the students were joined by Cuban refugees, violently bitter about the showing of "Red movies" on Cuba...