Word: picketings
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...Pickets from the NAACP, CORE, the American Veterans Committee, the Unitarian-Universalists, and the State AFLCIO filed around the hotel carrying placards protesting the rally. Violence erupted on the picket line when a Polish refugee tried to burn a Communist flag on the sidewalk, causing a scuffle. The refugee, Joseph Mlot Mroz, president of the Anti-Communist Federation of Polish Freedom Fighters, was arrested on a charge of disturbing the peace...
...walking on a picket line and an FBI agent comes up and rubs this white chemical on you and you're wired from then on. They can pick up everything you say until you have the suit cleaned.* They go to the school and investigate my kid. He's a good kid, if I do say so. They go around to his friends and say, 'How many suits of clothes has Jim Hoffa got? How much money does he carry around in his pocket?' They gave orders to every airline office in the country-when Hoffa...
...single issue groups" -usually "academic" students whose concern to ban this or that stems largely from high intellectual awareness. Such bright youngsters, the fruit of rising admission standards, are all for such unexceptionable American values as peace, equality and freedom. They just want to carry them out. So they picket or parade for disarmament or civil rights, and the really curious thing is their political style-"restrained, reflective, cautious, intellectual and even pedantic...
...Tutoring is not as dramatic as walking in a picket line, but it just as surely pays dividends," King added...
...perceptive, I take serious exception to the thesis of his article in the latest Bookshelf ("Political Activity Gives Students Sense of Significance"). As Mr. Roberts would have it, "maturity came to student politics" when the disoriented radicals decided that they could accomplish more in the precincts than on the picket lines. In his view, student politics came of age intellectually and politically when the peace marchers gave up "waving signs and singing songs" in favor of "stuffing envelopes and pushing doorbells for Prof. Hughes (and) Rep. William Fitts Ryan...." I do not dispute Mr. Roberts' assertion that this transformation...