Word: placarding
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...Army meanwhile made clear that dissent is for civilians. Lieut. Henry Howe Jr., 23, was photographed in November carrying a placard that read: "End Johnson's fascist aggression in Viet Nam." Last week a court-martial at Fort Bliss, Texas, found him guilty of showing contempt of authority and conduct unbecoming an officer. Howe was sentenced to two years at hard labor and dismissal from the service...
...apolitical American young managed to find before have virtually disappeared-hence the concentration on the few remaining ones, such as civil rights and Viet Nam. Among the young bored by prosperity and consensus government, some observers discern a special group, the "New Puritans," who may be toting a protest placard alongside an anti-everything beatnik, but with an entirely different altitude inside...
...pleased that TIME publicized the text of McGeorge Bundy's "icily" appropriate reply to the incomprehensible invitation to explain the U.S. presence in Viet Nam and to specifically define "who is our enemy." A small minority of professors and placard-carrying students are making a noise far out of proportion to their numbers and importance in opposition to the national aims in Southeast Asia, and are actually playing into the hands of our enemies...
...Fight It Yourself." At times, reason seemed about to prevail, as when Robert Gordon, 20, a psychology student, arose and pointed at a placard proclaiming the death of U.S. morality. Said he: "I have always been led to believe that good manners are a prerequisite of morality. I'd like to ask what these students are doing here, standing against a wall, protesting loudly, and generally enjoying a right of freedom that would be denied them in any Communist society...
...afternoon lull in Harvard Square was disturbed yesterday as nearly 200 chanting, placard-carrying marchers filed down Mass. Ave., protesting U.S. involvement in Vietnam...