Word: picketer
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Like Ronald Reagan, Heston was once a moderate Democrat. He campaigned for Adlai Stevenson and voted for John F. Kennedy. In 1961, when an old friend, Dr. Louis J. West, became active in civil rights, Heston agreed to stop by Oklahoma City and picket several whites-only restaurants for a brief photo opportunity. In his 1995 autobiography, In the Arena, he explains, "It was also part of my expanded persona, riding the tiger." Two years later, as president of the Screen Actors Guild, Heston was among a score of actors who attended Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington...
...attempting to flee the growing conflict with Ethiopia -- stranded, the pilots' popularity is plummeting. A poll in Le Journal du Dimanche showed that just 38 percent of the union-friendly French public support their strike. Compare that to 79 percent for the truckers last fall, and you have the picket-line equivalent of an own goal...
Come fall, however, Harvard's claims of geographic diversity will soon evaporate. Those students who call safe city townhouses, a string of similar picket-fenced suburban tracts or the occasional rural town home begin to identify with each other, and the few from inner-city areas struggle to find space for their experiences in the halls...
...wildlife. They recall the cruelty charges brought against the entertainment giant after six vultures died at its Discovery Island park in 1989. "When it comes to animals," says Joe Taksel, managing director of the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida, "Disney should stick to Mickey Mouse." Some activists plan to picket the park on opening...
...Quarter-Pounder with cheese in Macedonia, Ohio, you'll have to cross a picket line. Six young McDonald's employees got so angry over management's alleged rudeness and refusal to grant leave over Easter that they launched the first-ever strike against the company in the U.S. "Trade unions have never gone after McDonald's because its workforce is so transitory -- it's mostly composed of kids," says TIME correspondent Edward Barnes. But while the nation's sunny economic prospects may embolden service sector labor, the major threat facing McDonald's in the three-day-old strike...