Word: picketings
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...unreasonable" in its demands for the Negro in the ghetto. "How much do you have to show your 'black bourgeoisie' board member," asked Rusk, "before he decides that it's about time to shelve his old, comfortable image of the Urban League, which didn't picket, boycott or organize strikes...
...Chicago. "These prices are robbery. The Government seems more interested in the price of rice in Saigon than in food costs in New York," says Manhattan-dwelling Mrs. Joan Lester. Says Boston's Mrs. Irene Krutt: "If I were younger, I'd grab a placard and picket...
...G.O.P. candidate for Governor, persuaded them to roll back to the old 28?-qt. line until such time as the State Milk Control Commission could hold hearings to determine "a fair price." Last week the commission started its hearings-whereupon some 200 dairymen stomped out and set up picket lines to agitate for higher milk prices...
...anniversary of the first A-bomb raid. Luci's rumored reaction may be apocryphal, but it is not atypical: "O.K., how about December 7?" Another outfit, calling itself the Ad Hoc Committee for the August 6 Protest Against the War in Viet Nam, announced its intention to picket the National Shrine and the White House throughout the wedding celebration...
SPONGE & Jacks. To some extent, the same futility underlay a racial outburst in the East New York section of Brooklyn last week. The catalyst was a menacing group of white men called the Society for the Prevention of Negroes Getting Everything (SPONGE). Their goading picket line, set up in a neighborhood that has been traditionally explosive because of racial street-gang rivalries, was an irresistible target for Negro bystanders. Fighting broke out and scattered gunshots crackled through the area, killing an 11-year-old Negro boy as he crouched in terror on a street corner. Rooftop commandos hurled everything from...