Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power tactics have been led by a relatively small group of radicals who hate all authority. Yet many campus-wide protests have involved moderate and even conservative students with little or no use for the doctrinaire polemics of Students for a Democratic Society. Many students reluctant to march or picket have nevertheless been stirred to face the issues raised. The jolting, dramatic atmosphere created by defiant demonstrators, television cameras and, frequently, charging police have left only the most aloof students untouched...
Myers said the group plans to wear white armbands and perhaps picket in the Yard. The aim is to "communicate to parents" student objections to the war, and Myers hopes to collect 150 to 200 signatures against the draft...
...labor, West German students must usually go it alone in their stormy protests. But they keep at it just the same, and last week was no exception. At Frankfurt University, 200 members of the Socialist German Students' League barricaded university entrances, surrounded buildings with a tough, red-helmeted picket line and battled anyone who tried to enter classrooms. At Bonn University, 1,000 students boycotted lectures. At more than a dozen other West German universities and colleges, thousands more staged teach-ins and protest marches...
DURING the 1964 primary campaigns, Robert Harris, then president of the student body at Michigan State University, was bothered by what he felt to be inaccurate claims of campus support being trumpeted by some of the candidates. But he saw no point in taking his protest to the picket lines. He did not stage a sit-in, or even dream of holding a faculty member hostage. Instead, as this year's election approached, he came to TIME with an idea. Why not find out what the students really think...
Other bargaining units from coast to coast quickly came to the same terms. After that, calling off the strike, which had been aimed at telephone service in 47 states, needed only membership ratification for picket lines to dissolve and for installers, repairmen, operators and clerks to return to jobs that have been held down in their absence by supervisory personnel. Beirne predicted that ratification would come quickly...