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Outside the Baltimore Convention Center, a picket's placard proclaimed: PRESIDENT CARTER, SEX DEVIATES AREN'T GOING TO TEACH MY KIDS. Read another poster: WHY ARE JIMMY AND ROSALYNN SPONSORING THIS ATTACK ON GOD'S PLAN? Scarcely seeming to notice the hubbub, and smiling as usual, the President entered the hall and urged the 671 delegates attending his White House conference to be the "catalyst for a new awareness in government of the importance of families and the needs of families...
...demand more employment for disadvantaged youth, the Rev. Jesse Jackson last Saturday rallied 5,000 people-a fifth of the number expected-on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol. "We want jobs," they chanted. One placard read: HELP FOR CHRYSLER WHAT ABOUT US? The demonstration was preceded by a week of hard lobbying by Jackson, during which he met with President Carter to make a direct plea for more youth job funding. "We have a real depression in the black community," said Jackson...
...there were some startling crosscurrents. At Columbia University, a score of students tore down a placard reading DRAFTED that had been placed by protesters around the neck of a statue of their alma mater. They draped her in a U.S. flag. The draft resisters charged, and the two groups briefly engaged in some pushing and shoving. Students polled...
...thermometer read 10° F as 3,000 teachers gathered last week in Chicago's downtown Daley Center to jeer at politicians, bankers and the insolvent Chicago board of education. On one demonstrator's placard was a photograph of Mayor Jane Byrne ringed menacingly by a bull's-eye target. Snapped a teacher: "I'm too angry to feel the cold." Others were out in the cold too: the city's 473,000 public school students. With most of their teachers taking part in what the 26,000-member Chicago Teachers Union called a "constructive...
...master of the art of self-representation, the last man to become a real celebrity (as distinct from a mere famous artist) through the medium of the art world. He is the Duchamp of the engages, a position he laid formal claim to in 1964 by exhibiting a placard on West German television which read, "The silence of Marcel Duchamp is overrated." As such, he is famous for being famous, for being rather than doing. It is quite unnecessary that his political notions should have any effect on the real world...