Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aircraft of this type are "Comint," for communications intelligence, and "Elint," for electromagnetic intelligence. "Comint" primarily means verbal radio messages while "Elint" covers such nonverbal signals as radar, automatic landing aids and computer traffic. Since the early 1950s, EC-121s have flown the Atlantic and Pacific regularly as radar picket aircraft...
...exceeding all the bounds for which it was created. What can be done? Here, I'm at a loss. Perhaps I'm dreaming, but for the future I see martial law on campuses, in cities, and even military control of the government. We are walking a slim picket fence. Think about it for a while. I would appreciate comments. Ray Brassard 11631372 3628 Student Square Lackland Air Force Base, Texas
...puzzle out for itself the rationale behind SDS's moves. It is true, as SDS has found in the last week, that the vast majority of students will not itself actually take any action in support of the demands (not even as minimal a one as joining a picket line). The only people SDS can rely on to do anything are the 400 or so who make up the radical hard core. But it is wrong to thing, because of this, that the continuing effort to gain and hold massive student support on the issues can be dispensed with...
...class was being held inside Sever despite the picket lines on either side of the building. Eads said that attendance was near normal...
...WOULD BE to assume, because the Faculty has no intention of joining the picket lines, that its meeting this afternoon can not have any fruitful consequences. Most students continue to believe they share large areas of common concern with their teachers, and the Faculty's general posture at its Tuesday meeting served to reinforce this belief. Those students who see the Faculty as Harvard's one potentially responsive body ought to be encouraged by its explicit refusal to use last week's disruptions as an excuse for burying substantive issues. By actually coming to grips with some of those issues...