Word: picketings
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...group of students plans to picket the University October 1 to protest the serving of California grapes in Harvard dining halls...
Starting today the group will picket three stores in the Square: Broadway Supermarket, Superior Market, and Nini's. YPSL says that all three are selling the grapes, in violation of an agreement made last spring to take them off their shelves...
...Americans. Will the second car or the boat be sacrificed to higher taxes? Will Daughter be raped or robbed by a black-nationalist hoodlum or move in with a beaded, bearded white hippie? Will Junior's college career-the dividend of long years of saving-end on a picket line organized by anarchists who wave Viet Cong flags and spit on the Stars and Stripes that Dad fought for in World War II? In fact, blacks are by far the most frequent victims of black criminals, and there is no real political answer to youthful excess. Nonetheless, racial fear...
...scuttled six yards around left end with his aloha shirt flapping. A crowd of 17 fans turned out for the game, which was blacked out on nationwide TV. There was some fear that the game might have to be postponed when beer vendors refused to cross the picket lines thrown up by striking members of the National Football League's Players Association. But that crisis was averted when Toots Shor agreed to act as water boy for both teams...
...nights later, the rabbi appeared in the assembly hall of Manhattan's Hunter College to deliver the major speech of his two-week tour. He found a picket line of Jewish university students outside the hall, had to enter through the back door. Inside, loud and strident objectors in the audience of 1,700 repeatedly interrupted his speech, which he delivered in Yiddish, with catcalls and jeers. Levin was booed when he reported that there was a kosher slaughterhouse in Moscow, booed again when he said Jews were admitted freely into Russian schools and had no trouble getting jobs...