Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Councilor Mary Ellen Preusser, who sponsored the "home-rule" petition seeking to end zoning exemptions for Harvard and other Cambridge universities, said it was spurred partly by neighborhood protest over Harvard's plans to build the Radcliffe gymnasium on Observatory Hill...
...general policy on political ads or policy statements by corporations. (The Crimson would, for example, accept an ad from Playboy defending its search for "Women of the Ivy League.") In addition, The Crimson will continue to accept regular advertising from Playboy and other such publications. Some people will undoubtedly protest that our decision is inconsistent because regular subscription ads contribute to sexism as much as ads soliciting models. Yet, it is not simply the degree of sexism in Mr. Chan's advertisement to which we object; rather, it is that the ad would involve The Crimson in soliciting women...
...event occurred on April 5, 1976, three months after the death of Premier Chou Enlai. The populace of Peking discovered that the flowers they had placed in Chou's honor at the Martyrs' Monument in T'ien An Men Square had been removed. In protest, tens of thousands of citizens marched on the square, but were repulsed by militiamen. The incident erupted into the most remarkable public demonstration in Peking in 30 years: before it ended, angry marchers had set fire to automobiles and a nearby building. Countless protesters were bloodied and hustled off to jail...
...wrenching industrial changes are stirring worker protest. Last week, their jobs in jeopardy, West German steelworkers were threatening to strike to back up their demands for shorter hours. Meanwhile, the Belgian government took over a large part of that country's steel industry. In September, French steelworkers called a one-day strike against a government plan to rescue their industry from bankruptcy by, among other means, eliminating up to 30,000 jobs over the next five years. Textile workers in France's Vosges region earlier staged an angry march through factory towns to protest the downfall of the once mighty...
Parents of some 1,200 children in California's San Fernando Valley have set up small home classes in protest against a local busing order; most say they object not to integration but to their kids' spending one to three hours a day on school buses. Then too there are parents who teach their own youngsters because they have decided to pull up stakes and spend a few months or even years touring the U.S. in mobile homes...