Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the college reopened Monday morning after a long Christmas holiday, there were a few minor scuffles and fist fights. Police arrested two pickets who went onto the campus and attempted to intimidate students with blowhorns. Most of the 18,000 students and regular faculty went through the noisy picket line...
...often tragically reflected in the behavior of their children. Suburban vandalism, drug offenses and larceny by the young are on the rise." The report makes clear that it is no longer justified, if it ever was, to think of suburbia only as a split-level heaven with neat picket fences. In fact, the term suburbia has become too broad; it covers Levittown as well as Greenwich, and some of the wealthiest communities have slummy enclaves next to the commuter-train tracks. According to 1960 figures, Pittsburgh's suburbs had more substandard dwellings than the central city, and poor families...
...close of the meeting, the group decided to hold a rally in support of its demands on January 10, three days after the next scheduled Faculty meeting. It was agreed that a small group would picket and leaflet at the Faculty meeting, but that it would be impossible to organize a large rally by the time of the meeting...
About 20 radical Law School students formed a picket line in front of the Law Placement Office yesterday while three recruiters from a prestigious New York law firm interviewed prospective trainees...
...recruiters had stated that they would address the crowd of demonstrators and onlookers at 12:40 p.m. But when the recruiters left the building at 1 p.m. instead of talking to the students, they walked through the picket line saying only, "We have nothing to say at this time...