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Most of the visiting physicians spent their time cruising through four floors of Manhattan's vast Coliseum, examining commercial and scientific exhibits and attending scores of meetings at which no fewer than 631 learned papers were presented (see following stories). The Coliseum had an extra attraction: a picket line of 150 doctors who marched about, protesting that the A.M.A. was not doing enough in some states to end discrimination against Negro physicians and patients...
Faculty members at M.I.T. and Boston University were planning last night to picket today's meeting. A spokesman for the picketers said he expected 40 to 50 marchers would be on hand to "protest against the policies Bundy represents...
...members, said Brown, were violating their contract with the Sun by refusing to cross the picket line. "The Newspaper Guild," he complained in a telegram to his Baltimore local, "has taken an uncompromising position in its negotiations with management," a surprising comment from the boss of a union whose New York local had pre cipitated a 114-day New York news paper strike two years ago that helped kill one paper. "Members of Baltimore Typographical Union," Brown went on to say, "owe their first loyalty to the ITU. Any member returning to work under the current contract would be upholding...
Members of other craft unions have also crossed the picket line despite the howls of massed strikers (several people were arrested in disorderly scuffles last week). The Teamsters are still staying away, but they are of little help to the Guild: the Sun has 100 in dependent carriers on hand to distribute newspapers...
Amid the waves of campus unrest rolling across the U.S., the University of Maryland was a sea of tranquillity; not a picket had been visible on campus all year. Properly impressed, Maryland President Wilson H. Elkins last month commended his 22,000 students for "their orderly conduct and constructive criticism," and deplored "the small groups" at other campuses, "which flout regulations, oppose any authority and confuse freedom with license to do as they wish...