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Protestors are predominantly young, but include many GI's and veterans. Each carries a placard with the name of one American killed in Vietnam or one Vietnamese village destroyed during the war. Marchers also carry candles and paper cups...

Author: By (special TO The crimson), | Title: Anti-War Protest Begins; Capital Braces for March | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...cluttered national headquarters on Washington's Vermont Avenue, there is the cheerful, youthful bustle reminiscent of the "Clean for Gene" New Hampshire primary campaign. One wall bears a placard: "When we lasted long enough, they gave us medals. When we died, they said our casualties were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: STRIKE AGAINST THE WAR | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...owned Rabat Hilton sat such disparate types as Saudi Arabia's conservative King Feisal, the moderate Shah of Iran and Algeria's strongman Houari Boumedienne. Host Hassan neatly averted the problem of sitting alongside an old enemy, Mauritania's President Moktar Ould Daddah, by having his placard lettered "Kingdom of Morocco." That enabled him to move down seven places at the alphabetically arranged table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Confusion at the Summit | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...from Pennsylvania, quoting Red and Blue coach Jim Tupenny as having said incredibly slanderous things about McCurdy's squad Beneath it was an interview with Tupenny. allegedly staged by McCurdy. in which the Penn coach needled the Crimson harriers individually. And off to the left was a large white placard with a limerick on it. attesting to Penn's hubris, and the inevitable punishment which Harvard would wreak upon...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Runners Meet Tough Pennsylvania, Long Triumph Streak In Jeopardy | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...administrative assistant to a protegee of Ted Kennedy, Massachusetts State Senator Beryl Cohen, Maryellen has on the wall above her desk a placard: HAPPINESS IS TED KENNEDY IN 1972. At the Chicago Convention last summer, the Democratic National Committee praised her as a "woman doer." In 1963, after she was graduated from Regis College in Weston, Mass., Maryellen decided to work in politics. "John Kennedy said that it was the only way to make things better, and that the whole world needed us," she says. Ted Kennedy recruited her to help in Bobby's presidential campaign-"A wild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: WHO'S WHO AT THE KENNEDY INQUEST | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

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