Word: picketting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demands were passed, here and at dozens, perhaps hundreds, of schools across the nation. Nixon went to the Lincoln Memorial and talked with the kids about surfing. The Faculty voted exam options; the Administration refused to honor an employees' strike; radical students set up picket lines around University Hall; the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities showed a few more students the door; and a large majority of undergraduates-myself included-left pretty quickly for home, vacation, summer jobs. Meanwhile, in South-east Asia-all over Southeast Asia-the body counts went up by a few more thousand...
...four were charged with trespass at one or both of two demonstrations: one, an obstructive picket at University Hall demanding full pay for striking Harvard employees and the other an obstructive picket which attempted to prevent members of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities from entering Holyoke Center...
Against her will, the grueling work has earned her a symbolic position in a movement whose "whole philosophy is that there is no one person who is symbolic," she says. "All I can do is exercise a lot of ingenuity. We've come a long way from the picket line protesting in front of the New York Times, baby. Now we've got to keep it up and not get corrupted and not get smug...
...states. On board, teams of chemical specialists rummaged amidst the exposed cargo testing for dangerous emissions. A dozen pigeons and rabbits -living alarm systems in the event of escaping gas-flopped in wire cages. Overhead, helicopters monitored the tracks ahead for rockslides and other dangers. In Waxhaw, N.C., a picket met one of the trains with a sign saying NERVE GAS MAKES ME NERVOUS. The biggest event of the twin odysseys came when one of the rabbits, named Panic, gave birth to five bunnies...
...brains at all. It is on this rather simple issue, relatively unrelated to the war in Vietnam, that the University's class bias is most apparent. Unfortunately for the University, many students did not buy the line they were offering, and for two days students engaged in a militant picket line in support of those workers who wanted a strike. For participating in these picket lines, many students were disciplined, some suspended, and four are now being charged with criminal trespass...