Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Britain's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament mustered 1,000 marchers to the Soviet embassy in London, but only 200 turned up to picket the U.S. embassy after the U.S. announced it would resume tests. C.N.D. Chairman Canon Collins insisted halfheartedly: "At present, it is Mr. Khrushchev who is shouting threats loudest, but we have to remember that both sides are to blame." Bertrand Russell's Committee of 100 was more inflexible, handed out blue leaflets declaring, "America, we denounce you. The decision by the American Government to resume nuclear tests is criminal. It in no way is justified...
Frustrated at home, the pressmen sent picket contingents to Akron, where Knight publishes the Beacon Journal, and to Charlotte, N.C., where he has two papers, the News and the Observer. The union emissaries failed in both cities: local pressmen ignored the picket lines. But when another six-man Miami team reached Detroit, the Free Press's sympathetic pressmen walked out, and the paper closed down...
Treasury's present boss may well be the most paradoxical picket on President Kennedy's New Frontier. For the past 8½-years, shy, spare (6 ft. 2 in.. 185 Ibs.) Clarence Douglas Dillon. 51, has ably served the public in posts of enormous influence and responsibility, but he is virtually unknown, and even less understood, by the public he serves. Dillon is a pragmatic, liberal Republican who holds down one of the most sensitive jobs in a Democratic Administration (not all Republicans can forgive him that). He can coldly and calmly approve a $6 billion deficit...
Grey Area. The reason for the widening schism between the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. is as old as the picket line: jurisdictional disputes. Faced with a decline in membership (from 15 million in 1958 to about 12½ million now), the increasing threat of automation, and long-term unemployment in organized industries, A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions have come to ignore their no-raiding pledges, compete bitterly with one another for membership. A major new "grey area" of conflict: factory maintenance. Although building tradesmen have always held a monopoly on industrial construction, C.I.O.-formed unions have traditionally carried out essential maintenance. Recently...
Bowditch's principal rivals for the singles title will be men he has already beaten this year--Williams' Clyde Buck. Dartmouth's Ron Picket, Yale's Ralph Howe. Other possibilities are Peyton Howard of Brown. Yale's Bob Hetherington, and the Crimson's own Paul Sullivan, who played some of his best tennis of the year in defeating Hetherington in the Harvard-Yale match Wednesday...