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...American Institute of Architects is presenting its Gold Medal to Marcel Breuer this week. It may be a good thing this is happening in Portland, Ore., 2,445 miles away from Manhattan, where such an award ceremony right now would be sure to bring out pickets. Why would anybody want to picket Breuer, a kindly man of 66 and a distinguished architect whose Whitney Museum is one of the finest things that any designer has done for Manhattan in years? Because last week Breuer unveiled his plans for a $100 million, 55-story office building-to be placed...
...Iranian Students' Association in the United States, however, rejects the Shah's regime as oppressive and militarily imposed, and said yesterday it would picket outside Harvard Yard at 2 p.m. today...
...other action, Vice Mayor Alfred Evellucci threatened to picket the next meeting of the water board at the Hotel Continental with a group of fishing enthusiasts because the board banned fishing in Fresh Pond...
...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...