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...Manhattan's new Mad ison Square Garden. With the support of militant Negro groups, including H. Rap Brown's ill-named Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Edwards got scores of Negroes to withdraw from the meet. For those who remained unconvinced, he announced that he would throw a picket line around the Garden, and "any black athlete who crosses that line will be in trouble...
...have little interest in getting into a punishment hassle with the University," Harris said. "But I would hope to make a stronger show than just a picket line." He would not elaborate...
Newspaper-strike season is upon the land. Detroit's two dailies were shut down nine weeks ago over a wage dispute that shows no signs of coming to an end. For five weeks the American Newspaper Guild has been picketing Hearst's Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, but the Herald-Examiner has hired non union personnel and continues to pub lish. Annoyed by this, out-of-work union men journeyed to San Francisco, where they set up "informational" picket lines around another Hearst paper, the San Francisco Examiner. Mailers, who had been negotiating with the Examiner, promptly walked...
...tight for two or three years while emphysema kills off all the city people in Vietnam--a new aspect of the war of attrition theory). Concertina wire surrounds every building or monument of size. The children here are as familiar with it as To mSawyer was with white picket fences...
Alexander's humiliation derived from his bold backing of Lieut. Commander Marcus Aurelius Arnheiter, the hyper-zealous skipper of the radar picket destroyer U.S.S. Vance who was removed from his command off Viet Nam (TIME, Dec. 1). When Amheiter was dismissed without a public hearing, Alexander-who had recommended him for the assignment-at first remained silent in hopes of avoiding an embarrassing scandal. Later, his conviction that Arnheiter's relief would sap the authority of every commanding officer overrode his concern for protocol; he openly demanded reconsideration of the Arnheiter case by Navy Secretary Paul Ignatius...