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...past year Yale students have refused to cross picket lines of striking workers; Brown students have rallied for cyanide pills and ejected CIA recruiters from their campus; Amherst and Colby Colleges have protested to keep their fraternities on campus...
...carrier and the strikers grew hotter. Weakened by the return to work of Pan Am's 1,400 pilots, the T.W.U. headed back to the bargaining table. But even as the talks resumed, Pan Am sent termination notices to more than 1,000 flight attendants who refused to cross picket lines and said it would replace them with new workers...
...school, and everyone came. The teachers still had not settled on a new contract, the town of Sauk Centre being one of a handful in Minnesota holding out against higher pay. (During a strike a couple of years ago, "teacher lover" became an epithet thrown at anyone supporting the picket line.) The Main Street merchants were, as always, keeping a censorious eye on anyone seen taking money away from Main Street to the shopping center in St. Cloud...
...asbestos victims protested the high cost outside the courtroom on the trial's first day, although the huge proceeding will not necessarily affect what they are paid. A Rand Corp. study estimates that litigation expenses already consume 63 cents out of every dollar spent in asbestos lawsuits. Said one picket's sign: LAWYERS PLAY WHILE VICTIMS...
Before delivering his speech at the State House yesterday. Vorenberg marched in a picket line in front of the John F. Kennedy federal office building. Shattuck and University Deputy General Counsel Martin Michaelson also joined the protest...