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...NAACP will not picket the movie this time because it has concluded that the movie is being given by the film study group only as part of a series to show technical improvements and the film's impact on the cinema industry...
Sharpened Knives. Around the world, other Army units are on the picket line. G.I.s muffled in cold-weather gear patrol the white wastes of the Arctic. In the jungles of South Viet Nam, guerrilla-fighting experts of the Army's newly formed Special Forces teach villagers how to fire the Mi, then lead them on forays against the Communist raiders that are filtering across the border in increasing numbers. In Hawaii, the 25th Infantry Division is trained in the stealthy art of jungle warfare. During maneuvers, men of the 25th drill on techniques of getting along with native tribes...
...excitement was inside, though. On the street below, Harvard conservatives led a picket line against "YSA Dupes." Later in the evening, as a crowd of 300-400 began to gather, the students were joined by Cuban refugees, violently bitter about the showing of "Red movies" on Cuba...
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...